What a great run we had!!! Our first 5K Rabbi Relay Race was a huge success as we had over 75 participants from a wide variety of local shuls! Congratulations to our top three finishers, Daniel Ginsburg, Tim Meushaw, and Jacob Namrow, who ran outstanding times despite the intense heat! Gift cards were donated by the Kosher Pastry Oven and The Candy Man for our top finishers!!!Thank you so much to Ben Yehuda pizza for providing great pizza at our event and donating slices to those who purchased tee shirts for the event. Between the money raised selling pizza, tee shirts, and the cost of the race, our community was able to raise almost $500.00 for JobKatif in Israel!
I would love to extend a tremendous thank you to all of the Rabbis that helped us make this event possible! Rabbi Rosenbaum, Rabbi Greineman, Rabbi Wolvovsky, Rabbi Kosowsky, and Rabbi Chinn were all excited and inspiring, and sacrificed their time to make this a great event! Reading through the answers to the Jewish questions at each of the stations, it is quite evident that the children and adults in our community have a tremendously wonderful connection to Judaism and our culture. Kol Hakavod! Lastly, I would like to thank the youth committee for helping to run this event, the Kabillio boys for playing music for our entertainment, the entire staff at YISE that did setup and cleanup, the office staff, and the Schreiber and Litwack families for putting out water stations so that our runners could stay hydrated enough to complete the race!
Please be on the lookout for information about our upcoming events! We hope you had a great time, and we loved seeing everyone out and about, doing Jewish activities together!
Brett Kugler
YISE Youth Director
