Read as an announcement for the pulpit on Friday, March 31, 1989
by Rabbi Myron Berman, Temple Beth El, Richmond, VA.
We six women are friends since childhood. Legend has it that our mothers put us together in playpens when they played bridge. However we met, we grew up together and, though some of us live in distant places and all of us lead varied lives, we remain close friends still. Now in our 60th year, we share a childhood memory of the way our lives centered around Temple Beth El. We learned in its religious school, prayed in its sanctuary and danced in its social hall.
In honor of our parents who helped to found and supported Temple Beth El all their lives, we want to do some small thing that will strengthen the younger generation’s attachment to Temple Beth El and to the Jewish values that our parents and Beth El nurtured in us.
We have decided, therefore, to endow The Playpen Pals Fund that will provide care and equipment for infants and toddlers while their parents attend services and enable these parents to worship with tranquiiity.
Doris Abraham, daughter of Phil and Goldie (Passamaneck) Tatarsky
Josephine Adams, daughter of Sol and Bertha (Tatarsky) Elsner
Regina Sager, daughter of David and Ernestine (Rubenstein) Rosenbloom
Bernice Saltzman, daughter of Leonard and Ruth (Radman) Meyer
Dore Trestman, daughter of Harry and Annie (Bloom) Abramson
Martele Wasserman, daughter of Michael and Jean (Katz) Sporn Scher
