Called to order by: Pres Don
Opening Song: R-O-T-A-R-Y
Patriotic Song: My Country ‘Tis of Thee
Invocation: Bruce Pacht on refugees
Song Leader: Lorraine Morrison Song: We Sail the Ocean Blue
Visiting Rotarians:
N/A
Guests:
Rev Rubin Jennings, Plainfield Baptist Church (Dan Nash)
Rev Eliot Fay, Lebanon First Baptist (Dan Nash)
Nate Malmquist Next Steps Computer Consulting (Ron Carr)
Hilary Michaud (Ron Michaud)
Raffle: Rev Jennings did not find the queen
Announcements:
Pres Don: Auction – luncheon meeting Aug 13 will be at The Haven
Forum next week
DG Louisa Tripp at our club on Aug 6
Salt Hill mtg next Monday, BOD meeting next Tue
Ron C: Obtained correct spelling for Sergeant: reminded members that notes from Clubrunner are most often sent to the entire club even if each member is addressed by name
Brags:
Steve Christy: 56th birthday!
Valerie Armstrong: her son caught a 37” striped bass on the Cape
Bill Babineau is supporting the Prouty…on the golf course. Contributions gratefully accepted.
Dan Nash is supporting the Prouty…as an ambulance attendant
Paul Tierney is supporting the Prouty…on the front porch of the Norwich Inn, supported by a gin and tonic
Rick Dyment worked at the pie sale by keeping kitchen clean and throwing trash in the dumpster: he was informed that we were supposed to take the trash home, not throw it in the dumpster. Dan Affeldt commented that he had no idea Rick was so athletic, and could throw bags out trash out while upside down. Our very own dumpster diver…
Rotary Minute: Mary Detsch on Rotary efforts in Sri Lanka for early cancer detection. Of 35,000 persons checked, 7,000 were actually diagnosed with cancer.
Speaker: Rabbi Edward Boraz, introduced by Ron Michaud
Shamelessly copied from the internet:
Rabbi Edward Boraz received his B.S. from Loyola University in 1975, his J.D. from Loyola University in 1978, Rabbinical Ordination from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in 1993, and finally his Ph.D. from Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in 1998. The Rabbi Currently serves in the following capacities:
- Rabbi and Executive Director of Dartmouth Hillel;
- Officer of the Tucker Foundation;
- Rabbi of the Upper Valley Jewish Community;
- Adjunct Assistant Professor in Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.
Most recently, he has served as the Chairperson of the College Committee of Alcohol and Other Drugs from 2000 to 2002.
As Rabbi and Executive Director of Dartmouth Hillel, his primary responsibilities include furthering the mission of Hillel, which is to improve the quality of Jewish life at Dartmouth specifically and working towards the betterment of the Dartmouth College community in general. The essence of his position is pastoral, with an emphasis on exploring with students the moral, ethical, and spiritual problems of contemporary life.
Prior to coming to Dartmouth, he served as the Rabbi for Bnai Tzedek, a congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio, while completing his doctoral studies. He is the author of "Understanding the Talmud: A Modern Reader's Guide for Study (Jason Aronson Press, 1998)."
"Serving as Rabbi for Dartmouth Hillel and as an officer of the Tucker Foundation remains a great privilege and honor”, the Rabbi says. “The diversity of students with whom I interact where we confront the challenges of our time continues to be personally rewarding."
Dartmouth Hillel seeks to promote a welcoming community to all those who identify with or are interested in Judaism. Hillel is dedicated to providing resources to help students express and explore Judaism on campus; it strives to engage students of all observance levels through religious, cultural, social, and educational programming.
Project Preservation
- To explore the question of man’s inhumanity to man in the framework of genocide
- To respond meaningfully to the existential reality of its consequence
- To immerse ourselves in the culture of those who lived through the Holocaust and its aftermath
Students sign up for this project: they travel to Eastern Europe to restore cemeteries of what were vibrant Jewish communities prior to the Holocaust. (These were gravesites of ancestors of the actual victims). Students in 2014 toured Aushwitz, then went to Lutowisa in SE Poland to restore a cemetery near Belcek – another notorious extermination camp.
The cemetery was coved with bushes and trees: originally, they spotted 75 gravestones. By the time they finished, they had restored 500. Stones were cleaned but not moved: danger of breakage, plus any re-location might in fact lose the relationship of the stone to the body. There was also the possibility of disturbing the remains.
The students were, in most cases, received by the community very well. Promises were made by the community to continue maintenance.
Rabbi Boraz then showed a video, taken, edited and published by students. Unfortunately the sound was not very good due to the club’s equipment, but it was a powerful video.
Video is available at
Rabbi Boraz stayed for another ½ hour after the meeting was dismissed to answer questions and discuss.
Most interesting! Hope you can visit the websites to get more info than your poor scribe could record.
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