Adult Israel Encounters - September 15

The Men's Club is proud to announce its first program for the 2009-2010 calendar.

The club will host "Yotam", a speaker from Adult Israel Encounters. Yotam, a young Israel adult visiting American synagogues and Jewish institutions this fall, will discuss growing up in the Holy Land and what life was like in the IDF. A Q&A will follow, and light refreshments will be served. Please contact club president Adam Shandler at adshandler@gmail.com for more info.

General Meeting of the Men's Club - Tuesday, August 11

The next general meeting of the CAI Men's Club will be held on Tuesday night, August 11 in the synagogue conference rooms. We'll start at 8 pm.





On the agenda:


*Discussion of the tentative 2009-10 programming calendar, including discussion of our first program for September.


*Presentation of the Torch and Quality Club Awards


*The new CAI Men's Club logo.


*High Holiday Ushering


*Sukkah building and dismantling (and scotch in the Sukkah!)



For more information please contact club president Adam Shandler at 973-325-2849 or adshandler@gmail.com. (We promise our meeting will be more productive than the one in the Dilbert cartoon, above!)

CAI Men's Club Wins FJMC Torch Award

The Agudath Israel Men's Club continues to receive recognition at the international level. At the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs (FJMC) Convention, held in Philadelphia on July 4th weekend, CAI took home a Torch Award for excellence in individual programming. "An Evening with David Schenker of the Washington Institute" was recognized for being a strong program in the Israel Awareness category. Marty Schenker, Vice President of CAI Men's Club, organized this event - one of the best attended in our programming calendar last year. David Schenker (pictured) will be invited back to speak to our community in early 2010.

The Torch Award for the Schenker lecture complements a FJMC Quality Club Award that our Men's Club won for overall excellence in 2008-09. The Quality Club Award was bestowed upon CAI at the NNJR Presidents Dinner on June 17th in North Brunswick. This marks the the third straight year that the CAI Men's Club has taken home a Quality Club Award.

Congratulations to Mary Schenker and all of our members for an outstanding year of service, dedication and hard work. Let's do it again in 2009-10!