At Temple Beth Am, one of the ways we nurture our capacity for gratitude and blessing is honoring those among us who embody our mission and enrich our communal Jewish life. Each year the Board selects someone to receive the Lowen-Kaplan Award and the Kesher/Connection Award.
Kesher Award: Submit A Nomination
Lowen Kaplan Award: Submit A Nomination
Lowen-Kaplan Award
In 1988, the TBA Board of Trustees established two awards in honor of two notable founding members: the Walter Lowen Award “for outstanding service toward the enrichment of Temple life” and the Seymour Kaplan Award “for the enhancement of the religious and educational life of the Temple.” The TBA Board (or designee(s)) chose deserving members of the congregation each year to receive the awards, which were presented at the Annual Congregational Meeting each May. In 2016 the Board re-evaluated the awards because of overlap in meaning and lack of consistent selection procedures and criteria. Board leadership met with Howard Lowen and David Kaplan, current members of TBA and sons of the founding members. With their blessing, the two awards were consolidated into one–the Lowen-Kaplan Award for the communal enrichment of Temple Beth Am. The consolidation of the awards pre-dated the Board’s adoption of a mission, vision, and values.
Kesher/Connection Award
The Kesher/Connection Award is a new award established by the Board in March 2021 to recognize the efforts toward and/or impact on advancing Beth Am’s mission of people who are relatively new to the Beth Am community. Each year going forward we will honor a volunteer or group of volunteers who have been part of the community for less than five years.
Temple Beth Am’s mission is to “deepen relationships to Judaism and our community by engaging the soul, heart, and mind.” By recognizing individuals who have gone above and beyond to advance this mission, we hope to deepen the relationships of many volunteers to our community and to each other as they draw inspiration and express appreciation through the nominations process. We also hope to deepen the community’s relationship to Judaism as this award focuses the community’s expression of one of Judaism’s core values—gratitude.
Temple Beth Am’s mission is to “deepen relationships to Judaism and our community by engaging the soul, heart, and mind.” By recognizing individuals who have gone above and beyond to advance this mission, we hope to deepen the relationships of many volunteers to our community and to each other as they draw inspiration and express appreciation through the nominations process. We also hope to deepen the community’s relationship to Judaism as these awards focus the community’s expression of one of Judaism’s core values—gratitude.
Lowen-Kaplan Award
The committee will use the following criteria in selecting the 2023 recipient of the Lowen-Kaplan Award:
1. An eligible nominee must be a member of the congregation in good standing, as determined by the Executive Director.
2. Current members of the Board of Directors are ineligible to receive the award.
3. Nominators are encouraged to focus on a nominee’s significant contribution(s) to communal enrichment and in alignment with Temple Beth Am’s mission and values.
4. A nominee’s contributions may be narrow in scope (one significant project) or broad in scope (varying contributions over time to multiple facets of the community).
Click here to nominate someone for the Lowen Kaplan Award.
Kesher/Connection Award
The Lowen-Kaplan and Kesher/Connection Awards Committee will use the following criteria in selecting the 2023 recipient of the Kesher/Connection Award:
1. An eligible nominee must be a member of the congregation in good standing, as determined by the Executive Director.
2. An eligible nominee must have joined Beth Am within the last five (5) fiscal years, no earlier than June 1, 2017.
3. Current members of the Board who joined Beth Am on or after June 1, 2017, are ineligible for consideration.
4. Nominators are encouraged to focus on a nominee’s contribution(s) to the advancement of Temple Beth Am’s mission and values.
Click here to nominate someone for the Kesher/Connection Award.
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