News from Jean Haddon, wife of our Visiting Rabbi Jon Haddon, just announced in June 2010 that she a grandmother of a baby boy. Send her your special note at jeanreynolds33@gmail.com.

   Just popping in to wish all our friends at TBS a very happy Chanukah as well as best wishes for the New Year.  We hope to be back sometime in January and look forward to seeing you then.  Mazeltov to Jaime and the whole Klau family on the occasion of Jaime's Bar Mitzvah....and another Mazel tov to Meilin and Howard Miller on their wedding day.  Our very best wishes to all.  Will miss being there to celebrate with all.
 
One more thing, Jerry would like to thank everyone for the Sunshine birthday greetings.  So nice to hear from friends this way
 
Hasta la vista
 
Marcia and Jerry 

 The membership of Temple Beth Shalom is saddened to learn

of the passing of the mother of our dear friend, Naomi Patz.

Condolence notes can be sent to:

Naomi and her husband, Rabbi Norman Patz, who will once

again be with us next fall. Our condolences to both of them

and to their family.

Please call the Office for their number or address.

2005

Dear Temple Beth Shalom Congregants,

After thirty years in Puerto Rico, twenty with TBS, Sonia and I have met, befriended, and to some sadly said goodbye to, many wonderful people here. Regrettably, it is now time for Sonia and I to bid farewell. I will be leaving on July 28 and Sonia will join me in Dallas, Texas near the end of August.

It was a decision we did not plan on, but sometimes conditions dictate new directions.

There are so many wonderful memories with TBS: our son, Robert, growing up and studying in the Religious School and later being Bar Mitzvah and Confirmed, my years as newsletter editor and board member, the High Holy Days and the warm intimacy of the Sanctuary, the sumptuous Onegs topped with great conversations in the Social Hall and the numerous committees and fund raising events which Sonia and I participated in. Those were great years which we shall never forget; nor the TBS people who shared the wonderful times with us. And this is truly a wonderful Synagogue, Temple Beth Shalom.

Goodbye, shalom, hasta la vista and be well.

We love all of you very much.

Alan , Sonia & Robert Hirsch

Alhi787@aol.com, Soniahir@yahoo.com

Jenny would like to thank all those who remembered her birthday with a Sunshine card.

posted: April 2010

  Dear Arnold,

 My family and I want to thank you again for the wonderful welcome you gave us at Shabbat services a few weeks ago during our first trip to Puerto Rico. Each one of you with whom we spoke was bursting with energy and enthusiasm for your congregation -- all very much like proud parents! -- and it was absolutely heartwarming. We make a point of visiting congregations to worship wherever we travel, but yours more than many others, felt like a family. We have taken back with us lovely memories of Luis's davening (and that of his cantorial assistant), your own personalized greetings from the bima, and an oneg full of sightseeing tips and what seemed to be home-baked goodies. (I had a positively fabulous chocolate teacake -- kudos to the baker!)

 We have fallen in love with your island and hope to return one day in the not-too-distant future. In the meanwhile, If ever you are in need of a cantorial soloist, please don't hesitate to contact me. It would be additional incentive to return, and I would be happy to give back the ruach with which we were met.

 B'shalom, Deborah Johnson

 P.S. I had a great deal of fun navigating your website, and was pleased to see that you captured the lively, familial, and personable spirit that characterizes your congregation!