Temple Beth Israel celebrates Rosh Hashanah with annual lunch

By Petra Rivera
| 9:00 p.m. September 17, 2023

Temple Beth Israel celebrated Rosh Hashanah with a lunch after their service at Michael's On East.

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Temple Beth Israel celebrated Rosh Hashanah with its congregants on Sept. 16. The annual lunch was hosted at Michael’s On East.

Rosalyn Fleisher organized the event, “I planned this with a lot of joy and happiness, being able to celebrate with your friends, wishing that the whole world would be like this.”

The Jewish New Year celebration started at the Temple with the Rosh Hashanah two-hour service. Then about 100 members carpooled to Michael’s on East.

The venue was packed with family, friends and loved ones from the Temple. Temple Beth Israel members shared community and met the children and grandchildren of their friends. The place was filled with camaraderie and laughter.

Susan Goldfarb, Brian Lipka, Barbara Pressman, Lew Moyer, Sandy Packard, Miriam and Allan Goldfarb.

The menu included matzo ball soup, a choice of salmon or brisket for the main course and a chocolate cake to finish the meal. Sylvia Pastor made 200 cookies for people to take home.

“This is just like celebrating with extended family,” said Pastor. “We're very blessed that we all can share things with each other and get along with each other and drink together.”

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Petra Rivera

Petra Rivera is the Longboat community reporter. She holds a bachelor’s degree of journalism with an emphasis on reporting and writing from the University of Missouri. Previously, she was a food and drink writer for Vox magazine as well as a reporter for the Columbia Missourian.