Monthly Archives: February 2013

What shuls can learn from shoes

This entry was posted in Award-winning columns The Rockland Jewish Standard and tagged change Ron Wolfson service shuls synagogue culture Zappos on by .

I purchased a pair of boots from Zappos.com, the online retailer, but they just weren’t right. I wanted to return them, but I also wanted to check out another pair of boots. Complicating what could have been a straightforward exchange was that I had initially paid through Paypal, which charged my American Express card, and […]

Champion of social action

This entry was posted in The Rockland Jewish Standard and tagged New York obituary Rabbi Louis Frishman Reform Rockland County Spring Valley Temple Beth El on by .

Community mourns passing of Rabbi Louis Frishman Rabbi Louis Frishman, who came to Spring Valley in 1951 and built a small 150-member Reform congregation focused on social action and community involvement into a 900-member synagogue with a waiting list, died on Feb. 6 after a long illness. He was 89. He inspired his congregants to […]