THANK YOU GRACIAS Roberto Lombert Building Superintendent Anthony

THANK YOU! GRACIAS! Roberto Lombert, Building Superintendent Anthony Tejeda Ruth Balarezo Veneranda Martinez For all that you have done for this celebration, and for our community! We love and appreciate you all! Bet Am Shalom Synagogue

The Gala Committee Extends the Warmest of Thanks to: Beth Am Shalom's Executive Staff Marie Samtula Jennifer Troup Ellen Tillem and Executive Director Vicky Farhi With Gratitude for Your Tremendous Role in The People Are the Song's Success!

The Bet Am Shalom Community AND The People Are the Song Co-Chairs Susan Ackerman, Bettina Klein, and Beth Davidson extend heartfelt thanks to our dedicated Committee: Helaine Beckerman, Rick Beckerman, Ronnie Berlin David Chalfin, Sharon Cohen, Ivy Eisenberg Vicky Farhi, David Fine, Gwen Finger Shelli Friedberg, Robin Gibbs, Raphy Haimowitz Claudia Jaffe, Phyllis Handler, Rachele Khadjehturian Neala Markowitz, Robin Rattner, Debbie Weiner Marilyn Weintraub, Paula Markowitz Wittlin, Moira Yanuck Thank you for your time and commitment to making this a special night for our honorees and community!

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Bet Am Shalom extends heartfelt thanks to DAVID FINE for his creativity, dedication and passion in providing graphic design services for The People Are the Song!

To Rabbi Bronstein & Cantor Schiller, "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. " - Helen Keller It is a great honor working on your team. We look forward to your continued leadership as we strive to enhance the BAS community. The Administrative Staff, Ellen, Jennifer, Marie

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Ann & Bill Sacher

With love to Les & Benjie Our own Jewish Dynamic Duo We're so proud and grateful for all you do. David, Ellen, Ben, Erin & Thomas Levy

Benjie and Les, With your songs in our hearts, We thank you. Josie and Alan Ganek

Thank you Rabbi Les Bronstein and Cantor Benjie Schiller for your spiritual leadership, generous hearts, and love for our community. We are so proud to be part of Bet Am Shalom. Michael, Bettina, Rebecca, Emma and Joshua Klein

Les and Benjie - -the very best! Terri Simon and Eric Levine

Thank you for creating such a meaningful and inspirational home for our family. With much gratitude and love, The Rotter Laitman Family: Annette J. Rotter, Joel P. Laitman, Clara, Natalie, Melanie Rotter Laitman and Remy Schwartz

Yasher Koach and Thank You to Rabbi Bronstein and Cantor Schiller for your years of dedicated service to our community!! Debra Abrahams Weiner and David Weiner

Thank you Benjie and Les for being part of our lives and the deciding factors in our decision to become a part of this wonderful community some 26 years ago. Mazel Tov.

Thank You to Our Rabbi and Cantor for Their Spiritual Leadership Diane, Marc, Jay and Eli Greenwald

"Know! A person walks in life on a very narrow bridge. The most important thing is not to be afraid. " Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Dearest Les and Benjie, Love and gratitude for 30 years of safe passage! Mazel Tov, The Krasnow Family

In honor of Les Bronstein and Benjie Ellen Schiller Spiritual Leaders and Role Models The perfect balance you have brought to Bet Am Shalom goes to the heart of our community's vibrancy. You have helped shape so many lives. Richard Cohen and Marcia Horowitz

The Kagan Family applauds our Rabbi and Cantor for their precious voices of leadership and caring. Stewart and Sarah Kagan

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor for all their wonderful work and for the spiritual, open, and kind atmosphere they promote at our wonderful Bet Am Shalom Susan and Joel Schwartz

Thank you Les and Benjie for leading our song for 30 years. Mazel Tov! Susan Ackerman

Thank you for your inspiration and comfort in times of joy and sorrow. Barbara Moss

Thank You to Our Rabbi and Cantor for Their Spiritual Leadership Beth Zadek and Joph Steckel

From the day you named our daughter, and through all the life cycle events thereafter: b'nai mitzvahs, weddings, funerals, etc, etc. - you have both had a special place in all our hearts! With love and gratitude, Bob & Shelley Fischel

Happy to Honor Our Very Special Rabbi and Cantor, and Support Our Very Special Synagogue Marge Feder

We feel blessed to be part of this congregation and to live our Jewish lives with Les and Benjie as our spiritual leaders! Mazel Tov! Marisa Jackson and Neil Faden and Family

Thank You to Our Rabbi and Cantor for Their Spiritual Leadership The Chalfin-Brownstein Family

Our Rabbi, Our Cantor, Our Inspirations With Love and Gratitude to Les & Benjie Harry and Karen Waizer

Mazal Tov to Les and Benjie for 30 glorious years at BAS Alan Septimus

With love & gratitude for a beautiful 30 years of your dedication to the Bet Am Shalom community. We are fortunate to be among your congregants & friends. Andrea & Marty Glenn

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. The Beltzer Family

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Beth and Ira Nash

Thank you so much to Rabbi Bronstein and Cantor Schiller for leading our unique and inspiring community! Jeff Rothman, Beth Davidson, Josie and Hugo

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Brian Oxman & Shoshana Cooper

Brian Peters & Judy Caplan Peters

With love and appreciation for Les and Benjie for their wisdom, grace and extraordinary talent for taking care of people. Buzz and Sandy Birnbach

לך״ - תפלתי ״ואני Les & Benjie Thank you for making your lives your prayers and modeling a path for all of us at BAS toward the Divine Liz Haas & Steven Gallen

With unending love and admiration From all of us, Frankie, Sam, Sarah, and Willard

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Jason, Rachel, Jack, Abby & Brooke Halperin

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Deborah Melincoff & Hooman Yaghoobzadeh

Les and Benjie Thanks for all you have done to strengthen the Bet Am community over these 30 years. Your gifts to us are truly without measure. With gratitude and affection, Madeleine and David Arnow

Yasher Koach to Les and Benjie for 30 years of inspired leadership and sustaining and building our Kehillah. Marina and Andy Lewin

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Mark Glucksman and Roberta Lieber

With love, appreciation and a huge Mazel Tov to Rabbi Les and Cantor Benjie on 30 incredible years with Bet Am Shalom. You are the heart, soul and spiritual center of our congregation. How wonderful for us all! Paula Markowitz Wittlin

Mazel Tov and thank you for your friendship all these years. Philip Genty and Judith Waksberg

Thank You to Our Rabbi and Cantor for Their Spiritual Leadership Phyllis and Alvin Goldman

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Phyllis and Stanley Handler

We are doubly blessed with your leadership and presence in our community. Steven and Wendy Lager

Mazel Tov to Les and Benjie for all you've done for the BAS Community and for all you mean to our family. We love you! Robin, Dick, Zachary & Ross The Baum Family

Kol Hakavod to our special Les and Benjie on this wonderful occasion! The Ettenger Family

Thank you, Les and Benjie, for your inspiring leadership, guidance and friendship. We are so fortunate to be able to share this journey with you. Victoria and Richard Greif

Dear Les and Benji, Mazel Tov and thank you for your commitment to Bet Am! Through your energy, passion and thoughtfulness, Bet Am is a warm, nurturing and inspiring environment and we are grateful to be a part of it. Congratulations on this remarkable achievement! Warmly, Samara, David, Olivia, Gaelen and Aaron Weinberg

We moved to Westchester to find a house, but joined Bet Am Shalom and found our home. Thank you for leading and guiding our congregation and creating a warm and caring community that welcomed our family so many years ago. Aaron, Claudia, Joshua, Adam and Seth Jaffe

With gratitude to you, Benjie and Les, for learning and music, for celebration and consolation, for enriching the life of our community for 30 years Ann and Ben Schaffer

Les and Benjie, Thank you for the gift of your unwavering spiritual leadership. We are so grateful to you both and the community you have soulfully nurtured these past 30 years! Our family has been enriched beyond measure. With Love, Ann, Stewart and Sara Crane

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Anne Corey and Connie Knapp

Thank You to Our Rabbi and Cantor for Their Spiritual Leadership Anonymous

Thank you Les and Benjie for what you bring to our community Lynn and David Badain

Yashar Kochachem to Benjie and Les and to our entire community! Betsy Miller Landis

Mazal tov to our dear friends, Les and Benjie, who have inspired us to be b'derech. Much love and k'vod harav v'hechazan. Fredda Cohen and Eric Nussbaum

Thank You to Our Rabbi and Cantor for Their Spiritual Leadership Sharon and Tod Cooperman

Dear Rabbi Les and Cantor Benjie, Your leadership, presence and friendship has been a blessing in our lives and the life of our family and community. L'Chaim! B'Ahava, Regina Schwarz & David Aftergood

Rabbi and Cantor, your hearts are in the work. Thank you for your spiritual leadership and Mazal Tov on 30 years at BAS. David and Barbara Aloni

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Elizabeth Clain and Robert Balin

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom Eve and Carl Finger

In honor of Bet Am Shalom and Rabbi and Cantor from almost founding members. Thank you for all the wonderful experiences. Dorothy and Kenneth Finger

Mazel Tov and Thank You For Everything You Do. With love, Fran & Dan Heyman

With love and gratitude for your leadership and friendship. Fred Mehlman & Harriet Gluckman

Mazel Tov to our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom and thank you for being such a large part of our family and lives. Love, Gwen, Daniel, Ethan, & Abigail Finger

We are honored to have been with both of you for almost 25 of your 30 years. With much love and affection, Robin and Howard Rattner

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Ivy Eisenberg and David Bixby

Benjie and Les--Mazel Tov! Four Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. . three weddings (one to go) and four grandchild namings (with ? ? ? to go). Talk about full employment! Thank you. We are so fortunate to have you as part of The Margolis Family. Jeff and Caryn Margolis

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Joan and Andrew Milano

Mazel tov and much love to our dear Cantor and Rabbi on 30 years of inspired leadership! Joan and Seth Rosen

With gratitude for your enriching spiritual leadership and joy in celebrating this moment in time with you and our dear BAS community. May you go from strength to strength. John Gallagher and Ronnie Berlin

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Laura and John Cromwell

With love and gratitude Laurie Bass and David Fine

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Michael Shapiro and Anne Frank-Shapiro

Les and Benjie: For being our spiritual bridge to this wonderful kehillah, we (and the TBTA) thank you and honor you. Nancy and David Lerner

Through all the 30 years that Rabbi Bronstein has led Bet Am Shalom he has modelled the kindness and attentiveness to everyone that has become the warm, friendly spirit which abides in the congregation Rabbi Emily Faust Korzenik

Mazel Tov Les and Benjie. You have been the heart and soul of our beautiful community. Robin Gibbs

Thank you for enriching our spiritual lives. Rosie and Simon Aronin

30 years of clergy-ship. . NAH 45 years of friendship! That's the record. Mazal Tov on OUR journey! Merrill and Laura Rotter

To our wonderful Rabbi and Cantor: We have had 30 years to prove our wisdom in accepting your choice of Bet Am Shalom as your pulplt. We are very grateful that you did so. Roz Schulman

With our heartfelt joy to Les and Benjie, Mazel Tov and Thank You. Stuart and Kathy Rosenthal

Heartfelt thanks to our Rabbi and Cantor for your leadership, your inspiration and your friendship. Susan & Daniel Van Doren

Mazel Tov to Our Rabbi and Cantor on 30 Years at Bet Am Shalom. Susan & Robert Promisel

You took a Village and made us a Civilization. Mazel Tov, dear Les and Benjie, Andy Fredman and Susan Leon

"For the people's heart was in the work" Nehemiah 4: 6 Thank you Les and Benjie, for 30 years of caring and devoted leadership With much love and admiration, Susan and David Roth

WE WANT LEADERS WHO GIVE US A HAND TO HOLD A SHOULDER TO LEAN ON AN EXAMPLE TO LEARN FROM LEADERS LIKE RABBI LESTER BRONSTEIN CANTOR BENJIE SCHILLER The New York Board of Rabbis

Celebrating 30 Wonderful Years! Les and Benjie, thank you for being there for our family at times of joy and sorrow, for your gifts of spirituality, thought, collaboration, and inspiration that you so generously share with us, and for your deep friendship. You truly are our song! Ilene Semiatin, Vincent Park and Family

With love and gratitude for your generous, wise and inspiring words, music and spirit. Marilyn & Robert Weintraub

Thank you, dear leaders of the spirit soul, and community. We are indebted to you both on so many levels. But most of all, for the music. Richard and Charlou Woodrow

Jennifer and Mark Chu-Carroll Karen and Jerry Dolins Susan and Wayne Eisman Rena Hecht and Robert Piliero Shelley Levine and Larry Schwartz Hannah Nelson