Join us on Monday, May 2 at 1 p.m. when Kol Arev, Hebrew College’s Chamber Choir, will perform works in Hebrew, Ladino, Italian, and Yiddish.
Among the works will be “Abi Gezint,” “Erev Shel Shoshanim, “Adijo Kerida,” and Cantor Jeff Klepper’s “Oseh Shalom,” as well as duets and solo pieces by our cantorial students.
Please join us on Thursday evening, June 2, 2022 for a hybrid event celebrating our Centennial! Our program includes uplifting live music; delicious food; reflections from teachers and alumni on education, history, and hope; and blessings for our honorees.
In person: 6:30-8:30 p.m. atTemple Beth Elohim, Wellesley, MA
6:30 p.m. Outdoor welcome reception — eat, drink & schmooze
7:30 p.m. Hybrid program — music, blessings & learning (masks required for indoor guests)
8:30 p.m. Dessert
Reservations & Tributes: RSVP online here to attend in-person or online
The deadline for sharing your predesigned tributes, text, and/or logos has been extended to May 27. Kindly submit your materials to [email protected]. Dimensions for predesigned files:
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Our Honorees: Embracing Our Past, Building Our Future
Myra Musicant and Howard Cohen (read bio) with the project development team for our new campus: Isabel Acuna, Paul Bouton, Karen Dubrovsky, and Pam Goodman
Conversations with Faculty and Alumni
Rabbi Dan Judson, PhD, Hebrew College Dean & Chief Academic Officer
Rabbi Jane Kanarek, Hebrew College Associate Dean & Professor of Rabbinics
Rabbi Or Rose, Founder of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College
Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University Professor of American Jewish History
Calling all alumni who plan to join us virtually for Hebrew College’s Centennial Celebration Livestream! Want to join us for our special alumni virtual class reunion at 7 p.m. to connect with former classmates before joining the livestream at 7:30 p.m.? We will gather as an alumni community before entering decade-specific Zoom breakout rooms with both an alumni host and a current student.
Geraldine Acuña Sunshine and Gabriel Sunshine
Julie Altman and Alex Sagan
Rabbi Sharon and Shimon Cohen Anisfeld
Rabbi Marc Baker
Brenda and Stéphane Bancel
Beverly Bavly
Harvey and Jayne Beker
Nancy Kaplan Belsky and Mark Belsky
Diane and Chester Black
Michelle and Darren Black
Terrie and Brad Bloom
Dana Blumberg and Robert Kraft
Helaine and William Braunig
Dorothea and Sheldon Buckler
Carol and Carl Chudnofsky
Louise Citron
Laura and Aaron Cohen
Leslie and Alan Crane
Dorit Harverd and Richard Dale
Miriam Daniel and Laurence Wolff
Suzanne and David Diamond
Robert Feingold
Ron Feinstein
Renée and Steven Finn
Fern Fisher
Marjorie R. Freiman
Amy Gerson and Louis Grossman
Nurit and Jacob Gilon
Rachel and Allan Goldstein
Sandy Goldstein and Michael Buonaiuto
Paula and James Gould
Lillian and Richard Gray
Lisa Gross and Richard Hoffman
Sheri and Eli Gurock
Judge Rand Hoch (ret.)
Sherry Israel
Dorian Goldman and Marvin Israelow
Cantor Marcie Jonas
Alison and Isaac Judd
Rabbi Dan Judson and Dr. Sandy Falk
Carolann Kamens Wiznia
Sharlene Kamens Finkel
Toby Kamens Rodman
Faith and Bernard Kaplan
Jen Kaplan and Susie Tanchel
Judith and William Kates
Marsha Katz Slotnick
Stuart Kleeman
Roselyn and Edwin Kolodny
Rabbi Jamie and Harold Kotler
Rabbi Claudia Kreiman
Ruth Langer and Jonathan Sarna
Rabbi David Lerner and Sharon Levin
Debbie and Richard McNeil
Anne and Rabbi Rim Meirowitz
Dan Miller
Susan Miron and Burton Fine
Beth and Michael Moskowitz
Sara Moss and Michael Gould
Rabbi Suzanne and Andrew Offit
The Priebatsch Family Fund: Suzanne Priebatsch and Norman Priebatsch z’l, Daniella Priebatsch Place, Seth Priebatsch
Ina and Jerry Regosin
Terry Rosenberg and Elliot Schildkrout
Rudnick Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Ronni Sachs Kotler
Rabbi Sonia and Dr. Ned Saltzman
Rabbi Ma’ayan and Rick Sands
Susan and Bob Schechter
Pamela and James Schwartz
Rosalie and Jim Shane
Susan Shevitz and Larry Bailis
Rosalyn and Richard Slifka
Susan and James Snider
Denise Littlefield Sobel
Rabbi David Starr
Theodore and David Teplow
Arnee R. and Walter A. Winshall
Marni and Bob Wise
Justin Wyner
CORPORATE SPONSORS
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Haverim/Friends Level
Yedidim/Companions
Community Sponsors
Learn about Corporate Sponsorships
Corporate sponsorships are available! All Corporate Sponsors receive a full-page ad with your sponsorship level indicated in our virtual tribute book, recognition at the event, and entrance* to the in-person celebration as well as access to the livestream link.
Shutafim/Partners Level $10,000 to $19,999
Haverim/Friends Level $5,000 to $9,999
Yedidim/Companions Level $1,800 to $4,999
*We appreciate your patience as we wait to see what the pandemic will allow closer to the date in terms of how many people we may welcome in person.
Please contact Mia Tavan at [email protected] with questions or your high-resolution logo and tribute book text. Thank you!
Honoree Bios
Mark Atkins and Miho Sato
Mark Atkins is a retired entrepreneur and longtime volunteer at Hebrew College. In 1990, he co-founded Vality Technology, Inc., a Big Data software company, where he served as Chairman and CEO until 2002, when Ascential Software (IBM) acquired the company. From 2002 until 2012, he served as Chairman and CEO of Invention Machine Inc., a global innovation software system that was acquired by IHS. From 2013 until 2018, he served as an adjunct professor at The University of Massachusetts-Boston College of Management, where he taught Entrepreneurial and Global Strategic Marketing courses to MBA and undergraduate students. Over the past decade, he has also served as a Board Director, consultant, and mentor to several technology companies.
Mark is a member of the Board of Overseers of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Hebrew College and a former board member of the University of Massachusetts Foundation, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston, and The Vilna Shul. He is also a former trustee of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) New England, and served on the AJC National Board of Governors from 2015 until 2018. He was an honoree and recipient of the Vilna Visionary Leadership Award, as well as the recipient of the Distinguished Business Leader Award by the University of Massachusetts College of Management. In May 2017, Mark delivered the keynote address at the College of Management Convocation for the University of Massachusetts-Boston School of Management. In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate degree from Hebrew College. Mark received his MBA from Babson College and his BA from The University of Massachusetts-Boston, where he set up The Mark E. Atkins Scholarship Endowment.
Miho Sato is a classically trained soprano singer and licensed broker. She graduated from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and studied at the Boston University Opera Institute. In 2004, she founded Urban Realty Group, which primarily served the Japanese community in Greater Boston. Her company was acquired by a publicly traded Japanese relocation company in 2014. She assists her partner, Mark Atkins, in managing their real estate holdings. She also continues to perform in classical concerts in Japan and Boston. She is the mother of two adult children, Akiba and Sarah.
Jack Eiferman
Jack Eiferman is an attorney at the Boston-based law firm of Goulston & Storrs. Over the past four decades, he has worked on a wide range of legal issues that face businesses and nonprofit organizations, including many in the health care, education, cultural and trade association sectors. Jack is a past Chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Tax-Exempt Committee and served on the Committee of the Boston Bar Association that last revised the nonprofit corporation laws. He is the author of several chapters in the Massachusetts law treatise for nonprofit corporations, which is used as a guide for lawyers concerning the legal challenges faced by practitioners and solutions to those problems.
Jack is a graduate of the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BA from The State University of New York at Albany, a Masters of Public Health from Yale University, and a JD from Rutgers University. He and his wife, Fern Fisher, are the parents of Bennett, Julia, and Reva, and the grandparents of Ronit and Leo. They are members of Temple Beth Zion and Congregation Kehillah Israel in Brookline. Jack is also the secretary of the Hebrew College Board of Trustees.
Deborah Feinstein, MAJS`07, Me’ah`99
Deborah Feinstein was a Museum Director/educator/curator for over 25 years. With her first graduate degree in Islamic art from Harvard University, Deborah lectured on religious, historical, and cultural connection of the three major religions through the visual arts in numerous universities and museum venues. She was also the Director/Curator of the Holyoke Museum in Holyoke, Mass., as well as an educational consultant for exhibits at the Springfield Museum of Art in Springfield, Massachusetts. Working for an international exhibit design firm, Christopher Chadbourne and Associates, Deborah was project manager and an exhibit writer. For the Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, Deborah designed and wrote the panels for “The Boston Jewish Experience: Reconnect to the Tapestry” exhibit.
After completing the master’s program in Jewish Studies at Hebrew College, Deborah has used the visual image as an interpretative tool in creating Jewish illuminated manuscripts. Her volunteer life has been full … being president of the Board of Directors for the Vilna Shul for 5 years, Chair of the Capital Campaign that raised $4 million for its renovation, co-chair of numerous missions in Europe for USHMM, co-chairperson for the Wings of Memory Society of New England for the USHMM, a Hebrew College overseer and member of the Leadership council, and member of many committees at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley, Mass.
Myra Musicant & Howard Cohen
Myra is Treasurer of the Hebrew College Board of Trustees. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College with a major in religion. She studied in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University for 3 1/2 years while in graduate school. She received a master’s degree from the Simmons Graduate Program in Management. She obtained her CPA and had 7 years’ experience with the firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Myra was a member of the board of trustees at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Boston, serving as Treasurer and First Vice President. She is an alumna of the Me’ah program at Hebrew College. Myra has dedicated her life to volunteering in non-profit organizations. Currently, she is a hospice volunteer at Hebrew SeniorLife.
Howard Earl Cohen is the founder and chair of the board of Beacon Communities LLC. He serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency Advisory Committee, and the Department of Housing and Community Development Housing Preservation Advisory Committee. Howard holds a BA summa cum laude in economics from Washington University of St. Louis and a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School. He also co-founded and served as chair of the board of New Lease for Homeless Families. He serves as chair of the real estate committees at both Hebrew College and Hebrew SeniorLife. He chaired the community committee that resulted in the creation of Jewish Arts Collaborative and served as its initial board chair.
Myra and Howard are both active members of Temple Beth Zion in Brookline, where they have proudly helped the congregation grow from 50 to 350 members. At various times Myra and Howard served as Board Chair, President, and staff members. Myra and Howard have been married for 48 years. Myra and Howard have three married children and seven grandchildren, all of whom live in the Greater Boston area.
Hebrew College is excited to present a ShirahB’Yachad – Singing Together! A Concert Celebrating Cantor Louise Treitmanand the College’s 100th anniversary. We’re taking the opportunity during our centennial year to celebrate Cantor Treitman’s tenure and commitment and contributions to the College and the community! Read more about Cantor Treitman.
The concert is a collaboration between Kol Arev—Hebrew College’s Chamber Choir—and The Zamir Chorale of Boston, with Hebrew College alumni, students, and faculty.
We have reached capacity for how many people we may welcome to the in-person concert. The event will also be livestreamed and we invite you to RSVP to receive the link, and/or submit a tribute to Louise!
Read Judy Bolton-Fasman’s interview with Cantors Treitman and Lynn Torgove, Director of Hebrew College’s cantorial program and Artistic Director of Kol Arev, on JewishBoston.com
Performers
Kol Arev is Hebrew College’s Chamber Choir which includes cantorial and rabbinical students, Hebrew College faculty, staff, and community members, under the direction of Music Director Amy Lieberman. Cantor Lynn Torgove is the choir’s Artistic Director, and the Director of the Cantorial Program.
The Zamir Chorale of Boston, under the direction of founder and Director Joshua Jacobson, is one of Hebrew College’s new shared campus partners.
Concert Co-Chairs Cantor Marcie Jonas
Cantor Jodi Sufrin
Host Committee Rabbi Sharon and Shimi Cohen Anisfeld
Patricia Aronson
Cantor Marilyn and Stanley Becker
Lisa Berman
Diane and Chester Black
Rabbi Dena Bodian
Joyce and Michael Bohnen
Rabbis Caryn Broitman and Brian Walt
Linda and Joe Chafets
Rabbi Karen Citrin and Rabbi Micah Citrin
Cantor Maayan Harel
Amy and Jonathan Imber
Rabbi Sandi Intraub from Beth El Temple Center
Sherry Israel
Josh and Ronda Jacobson
Matt, Sara, Emily, and Marcia Kaufman z”l Cantor Jeff and Deeana Klepper Rabbi Leora Kling Perkins
Michele Koppelman
Rabbi Jamie and Harold Kotler
Rabbi Jonathan Kraus
Rabbi David Lerner and Sharon Levin
Marcy Lidman
Amy Lieberman
Cantor Kevin Margolius
Cantor Dr. Brian Mayer
Susan Miron and Burton Fine
Hazzan Dr. Charles D. Osborne
Rabbi Joel Oseran
Rabbi Barbara Penzner
Cynthia Piltch and Jamie Katz
Rabbi Marcia Plumb and Dr. Michael Shire
Rabbinic Pastor Matia Rania Angelou
Cantor Rachel Reef-Simpson
Jinny Sagorin and Dr. Jeremy Schmahmann
Professors Jonathan D. Sarna and Ruth Langer
Susan Shevitz and Lawrence Bailis
Myra and Robert Snyder
Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn
Sue and Bill Stibel
Professor Ramie Targoff
Cantor Lynn Torgove
The Treitman Family
Roslyn Weiner
Justin Wyner
Lorel Zar-Kessler
Barbara and Rabbi Henry A. Zoob
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Cantor Louise Treitman
Cantor Louise Treitman helped to create the Jewish Music Institute at Hebrew College in the 1980s, which subsequently became the School of Jewish Music (SJM), now the Hebrew College Cantorial Program.
She has continued her connection with Hebrew College since then in various capacities—as former Associate Dean of the School of Jewish Music, and currently as a part-time faculty member in the rabbinic and graduate Jewish education programs and as a teacher, advisor and cantorial coach in the cantorial program.
Cantor Treitman served Temple Beth David in Westwood, MA for 20 years and is honored to be their Cantor Emerita. She has served as High Holy Day Cantor at Beth Hillel in Rome, Italy, as well as Shir Hadash Firenze, in Florence, both members of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
With degrees from Wellesley College and the New England Conservatory of Music, she received her Certification as an Invested Cantor through HUC-JIR in New York. Cantor Treitman was the president of the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association of New England and also the founding president of the New England Board of Cantors. In addition to singing with the Zamir Chorale of Boston, she is co-founder/director of the vocal octet ‘Il Concerto di Salamone Rossi Hebreo.’
Tickets, Tributes, and Sponsorships
Certain ticket levels include a tribute message to Louise that you can write and we will include in our virtual Tribute Book if received by March 31.
SPONSORSHIP levels
Gold Benefactor $2,500+: Full gold-level tribute page and 5 VIP tickets
Silver Sponsor $1,800 – $2,499: Full silver-level tribute page and 5 VIP tickets
Patron $1,000 – $1,799: Full patron-level tribute page and 5 VIP tickets
Supporter $500 – $999: Half-page tribute space and 3 VIP tickets
Friend $360 – $499: Quarter-page tribute space and 2 VIP tickets
Mazel Tov $54 – $359: One-line tribute message for Louise and 1 general admission ticket
General admission
General Admission: $36
Seniors, Students: $18
Hebrew College Students: Free
Donations without ticket purchases are also welcome.
Join us for a special presentation and celebration of Chag HaBanot North African Chanukah Festival of Daughters with Jackie Barzvi. Learn history, customs, and the unique musical and dance traditions of Jewish women from North Africa AND some fabulous interactive dancing!
Jackie Barzvi is a professional raqs sharqi (belly dance) performer and instructor. She recently created the first ever Mizrahi Dance Archive to highlight specific Jewish dances from the Middle East and North African regions. Jackie was also the IACT Israel Programs Coordinator at Northeastern University Hillel in Boston, and has led over a dozen organized trips to Israel. Jackie is passionate about helping others find their unique Jewish identity and creating environments where people can dance, connect, and build community. To learn more about her work, visit the archive at mizrahidancearchive.com.
Hebrew College and Temple Reyim invite you to join us online on Sunday, December 5, 2021 from 3-4 p.m. to celebrate breaking ground for Hebrew College’s new home on a new shared campus in Newton, MA.
Groundbreaking Ceremony: 3-4 p.m. (Livestreamed)
Hebrew College and Temple Reyim are excited to collaborate with several organizational partners and neighbors on a new shared campus, creating a vibrant hub for Jewish learning and life in the Auburndale neighborhood of Newton. Hebrew College will relocate to our new home in December 2022.
Due to COVID restrictions, we will have a small in-person gathering. We are excited to livestream the event to share with our community far and wide. Please RSVP to let us know you will join us!
How to Watch the Livestream
We will be livestreaming the Groundbreaking on YouTube on Dec. 5 at 3 p.m. Please use the link below.
Following the Groundbreaking Ceremony, please join us outside Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington St. in Newton, to experience the Jewish Arts Collaborative (JArts) 2021 mobile art installation, “Brighter Revealed”. We are excited to celebrate our new campus, our shared campus partnerships (including JArts), and to deepen our partnership with JArts with this Hanukkah community experience.
Tour Mayyim Hayyim Community Mikveh (4:30 p.m.)
Tours of new campus partner Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center will be available to see the mikveh, education center and art gallery; learn how and why people immerse to celebrate moments of joy, heal after times of sorry or illness, or to commemorate transitions and changes. Vaccination verification and masks required.
Mayyim Hayyim makes mikveh accessible and meaningful for the full diversity of Jewish tradition. A busy center of community life, Mayyim Hayyim provides 1,600 immersions and over 110 education programs every year, art exhibits in our gallery, national consultation services, and meaningful volunteer opportunities and training. Tour, learn, and plan an immersion.
RSVP
Please RSVP to receive the link for the Groundbreaking livestream.
Parking for Hanukkah Experience and Mayyim Hayyim Tours
The outdoor Hanukkah “Brighter Revealed” experience will take place outside Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington St. in Newton, MA.
There is limited parking in the Temple Reyim parking lot.
There is parking available on nearby side streets, including Day Street and Aspen Avenue, within a 5-7 minute walk of Temple Reyim.
Join us for a morning with guest speaker Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, who will teach about the Ethiopian Jewish Holiday of Sigd and his experience immigrating from Ethiopia to Israel. The event will include discussion, learning activities, and the music of Sigd.
The Metrowest CultureFest co-sponsors include Hebrew College, Congregation Or Atid, Temple Beth Sholom, Temple Beth Am, and 2Life Communities.
About the Speaker
Rabbi Dr. Sharon Zaude Shalom immigrated alone to Israel from Ethiopia in 1982. A graduate visiting scholar from Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, PhD in Jewish philosophy from Bar-llan University. Head of the International Center for Study of Ethiopian Jewry Jewish Studies Lecturer Faculty of Humanities Ono Academic College. He serves as well as a rabbi of the “Kedoshei Yisrael” community in Kiryat Gat, a community of Holocaust survivors.
He received his ordination at Har Etzion and serves as a member of Beit Hillel and TZOHAR, an Orthodox Rabbinic organization. His M.A. thesis was on “Circumcision in the Beta Yisrael Community” and his Ph.D. thesis was on “Judaism of Fate? A Case Study on Theology of the Ethiopian Jewish Community,” both completed at Bar-llan University. He has lectured widely in many contexts on the following subjects: philosophy of halakha, Ethiopian Jewry, and the immigrant experience. He has published books, From Sinai To Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of Ethiopian Jewry including Shulchan Ha Orit (The Table of Light): a halachic guide for the Beta Israel Community. He also published the book Conversation about Love and Fear the Dialogue between the Rabbi’s Daughter and the Kes’s Son. At Brandeis University, he has worked to create a curriculum on Ethiopian Jewry, halakha, heritage and history, in collaboration with the “Village Way” of Yemin Orde, Professor Sharon Feiman Nemser, and Prof. Yehudah Mirsky. He currently resides in Kiryat Gat with his wife Avita and five children.
Mark Atkins and Miho Sato
Jack Eiferman
Deborah Feinstein, MAJS`07, Me’ah`99 
Myra Musicant & Howard Cohen
Cantor Louise Treitman
Hanukkah Experience:
Tour Mayyim Hayyim Community Mikveh (4:30 p.m.)
About the Speaker