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spiritual home but also a second family.
We have learned that whether we are
celebrating simchas and holidays, or
grieving with the community, or it’s just a regular day, we come
away so grateful for PSC and its place in the life of our family.
A huge thank you to everyone from first contacts Rabbi Goodman
and Michelle Booth to our newest members whom we look
forward to meeting, and everyone in between who have made
the last 21 years of our lives fuller, happier, and more wondrous.

Mazel Tov Peninsula Sinai on 50 important years.
We look forward to the next 50 and beyond with
anticipation, gratitude and love.

Ron, Liz, Rachel,
and Emma Mester

Thank you to our founders

and builders for the gift of
50 wonderful PSC years!

We can’t wait to see our
future generations’ next 50...

L’chaim!

Rabbi Corey Helfand, Cantor Doron Shapira & our families

Although we’ve not quite reached OUR 50th, we are

thrilled to be part of PSC’s Golden Anniversary
because “THIS IS US”!

MAZEL TOV TO OUR ENTIRE PSC COMMUNITY

Lou and Linda Harris

We’ve got Rabbi Corey, Cantor Doron and the best
Kehillah, what more could we ask for? We love PSC.

Peter and Anne Storm

Thank you PSC for bringing us together - 19 1/2 years strong!

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE PSC A HOME FOR 50 YEARS!

From the start PSC was and is the center of my Jewish life: I ran around
at 4 yrs during the oneg, learned Hebrew from Mrs. Gruschka and my
Bat Mitzvah portion from Rabbi Kraus, learned about volunteering
and leadership watching my parents and their friends during committee
meetings, enjoyed the facilities as a teen in Chai BBG, married Neal
under the PSC chupah, and continue to cherish my friends, new and old,
whenever I walk through the doors today.
It is a great joy and privilege to see PSC thriving as brightly as it is
during its Jubilee. Thank you for always being our home.
With gratitude-
Mollyann Brodie and Neal Goldstein

MAZEL TOV TO PSC ON ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY!

We have been members for 32 years and our family has
been very blessed to have the support and friendship
of all within the PSC family!

The Pearlman family - Rodney, Anne, Jessica and Ilana

MAZEL TOV

ON 50 AMAZING YEARS.
HERE’S TO ANOTHER 50!

Howard, Adrienne, Lila,
and Carter Abrams

With congratulations and gratitude to

PSC and to Rabbi Corey, Rabbi Marv and
Cantor Doron for all they have
given us over these many years!

Barbara and Dan Freeman

CONGRATULATIONS ON
PENINSULA SINAI’S 50TH YEAR!

May the congregation continue to grow and
thrive for the next 50 years!

Goldie and Marty Sosnick

WITH MAZEL TOV
GRATITUDE
on the 50th Anniversary
to Rabbi Corey Helfand of our founding.
and Cantor Doron Shapira
and our entire Congregation Shelley & Jerry Levitt
for loving inclusion & learning!

Linda Davis

It has been a blessing 50 NEVER
LOOKED SO
to our lives to have been
members of PSC for over GOOD!
40 years. Our community
Adi Storm
has the heart to go
another 50! Time flies
when you are having fun.

Stevan and Emily Chandler

THANK YOU We moved to the Bay area almost exactly 20 years
ago, leaving all family behind. Soon afterwards, we
to PSC’s founders, leaders and attended a service at PSC & were warmly welcomed
clergy for a great first 50!
by Cantor Doron, Rabbi Marv & a host of other
The Kaplan-Lipkin Family congregants--many of whom have since become
lifelong friends. We quickly felt like we became part
of a new family. Not only has PSC been a place of
worship & one for celebrating numerous milestones
(2 baby namings, 3 Bat Mitzvahs, etc.), but truly our
spiritual and 2nd home. We wish our 2nd family a
BIG MAZEL TOV on its HALF CENTURY celebration
& many, many more joyous and meaningful years
serving our community!! Thank you to Rabbi Corey,
Doron and all other staff and volunteers for every-

thing you do for PSC!

Love, Naomi, Ken, Maya & Shana Preston

MAZEL TOV

TO PENINSULA SINAI CONGREGATION

on 50 years of service to the Jewish community!
It is our honor and pleasure to be a part of this kehillah!

THE STEIRMAN FAMILY
Anne, David, Emily and Evan

IT’S BEEN A
PLEASURE TO BE

PART OF THE
PSC COMMUNITY.

The Englers

We are so grateful to PSC’s pioneers

who had the vision to create and build our
community and to our inspirational clergy
team of Rabbi Corey and Cantor Doron for
their vision to lead us into the future.

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT 50.

Irene, Stephen, Yossi and Galit Moff

Long may Peninsula Sinai Congregation PROUD TO BE
continue to be the welcoming, warm A MEMBER

and inclusive community that it is for 37 years and counting!
today. Congratulations as we come
together to celebrate 50 years of being Sari Spector
a strong and and vibrant community.
MAZEL TOV
Karen Moen and Family
on 50 years of growth
WITH GRATITUDE and service to the community.

for such a welcoming, warm and Fran and Ken Miller
unmatched clergy and community!

Jack, Ornit, Danny, Tommy,
Ellie and Addie Rose

KOL TUV

J and S Flanzer

CONGRATULATIONS WITH GRATITUDE

on the 50th Anniversary! to the people who built this
community over the past 50 years.
The Torbati Family
The Nissim Family

THANK YOU WISHING PSC

PSC for being such a huge many more years
part of our lives. of success and hospitality.

The Parks Family Leah B. Baars &
Marty Brounstein

We have been here for 50 years CONGRATULATIONS
and are happy to celebrate this
to PSC and to all of those we
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. danced with when we were there.

Steve and Andy Pearlman Barbara and Mel Brodie

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The Torbati Family You did a good job, Jon!
Wish you were here to see PSC now.

Joyce, Lori and Richard Gruschka

PSC MEMORIES

LINDA AND LOU HARRIS

Linda & I were NOT around at the beginning; we joined in the summer of 1974 after meeting with a Mr. Gruschka
(of blessed memory) who, we soon learned, was pretty much chief cook and bottle washer (e.g., president,
membership chair, education director). Jon immediately put me on the Board. At that time, we were about 45
families meeting at the old Belmont JCC. We didn’t have a Rabbi until we engaged Rabbi Jay Krause a year later.

One of the concerns of our members when we joined was building a synagogue. Up until then, our members paid
a Building Fund of the whopping sum of $25. Some time in the mid-70’s the congregation voted in a $500 building
fund. This started the ball rolling on the acquisition of the parcel of land at the corner of Edgewater and Boothbay
in Foster City.

We had a land dedication ceremony in the summer of 1977, still without a home. At the conclusion, John Igoe of
St Luke’s Catholic Church offered us the use their facilities. John Igoe said that we were a faith organization as were
they, and they believed they had an obligation to do whatever they could to assist. They didn’t even want to charge
us. They did agree, however, to let us contribute to the cost of utilities. It was a wonderful relationship that lasted a
little over a year, right up to the time we moved into our building in December 1978.

Several years later, we were approached by the Karaite community seeking a place to worship. Some on the Board
were reluctant. I laid out the history and we welcomed them into our facilities. A similar situation arose with Bridge
Four Square Church, who were with us for 3 years.

Bottom line? This taught me that we at PSC are only a small cog in a big wheel, and that we have a
better chance of enduring if we reach out to others who are in need.

BARBARA AND MEL BRODIE

We have many memories of our years at PSC. We formed lifetime friendships. We built something that
will last and are thrilled that our daughter, tiny when we joined, is now an active member in her own
right. Some things we remember:

• Learning that the proper way to hold services was the way it was done at home
• Meeting in a store front on 25th Ave in San Mateo
• Holding Religious School in members’ homes
• Renting space in an unfinished office building in Foster City for the High Holy Days
• Mimeographing our early bulletins – does anyone know what a stencil is?
• Making latkes together
• Building the first building where we held our children’s b’nai mitzvah

We literally grew up in Peninsula Sinai, developing a community, and carrying on the traditions of our
parents. We are thrilled that the synagogue is moving on and providing a place for future generations
to do the same.

PSC MEMORIES

JOYCE GRUSCHKA

The reason we started PSC was to have a place of worship with family, and those reasons exist 50
years later. We went from a vacant building in San Mateo to a store front on 25th Avenue to the
Belmont JCC, to using space at St. Lukes, to our own building on Boothbay. And with each move,
we added more members who became part of the family. We expanded our programs and became
a prominent addition to the Jewish Community which we still are today.

Shortly after we moved into our building and settled our Torahs in our ark, we had a very discouraging
event happen. One night, a group of teenagers painted a swastika on the side of our building. It was
shocking and frightening. The next day, our Rabbi, Jay Krause, Father Bob and the minister of the
Episcopalian Church down the street rolled up their sleeves and scrubbed that ugly image off our
building. We knew then that we were truly welcomed in the Foster City community.

As new members joined, Jon not only made them feel welcome, he involved them in activities and
committees so that they became part of the family. Jon helped make PSC part of the Bay Area Jewish
community. We had Hannukah parties where the men made latkes on Sunday morning and Seders.
We made it part of our service that women could participate fully in all aspects of the services which
is when I started chanting the Haftorah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, something I am still doing
today. It truly was the feeling of family, which I am still proud to be part of.

It’s difficult to condense 50 years into a few words, but what started PSC was a need to be part of a
family and that need still is part of our growing membership.

STEVE & ANDY PEARLMAN

Who would have imagined in the late 60’s we would be celebrating a 50 year gala? We originally met
with a few friends to decide which synagogue to attend. We remember talking with Manny & Sharon
Hirschel and Murray & Lois Bloom about the area. Most of the services were conducted by David
Reina. We had a number of visiting rabbis who came on Friday evenings only. I remember Saul &
Barbare Zenk originating the idea of moving to Foster City. During the construction, we were
welcomed at St Luke’s church and Hebrew and Sunday school classes were held in Father Bob’s home.

We were a bit concerned that the building would not be completed before our son’s Bar Mitzvah;
however, the builder, Hank Ecker’s son, also had a Bar Mitzvah planned, so the building was
completed in time. By this time, our membership was increasing, and we hired a full time rabbi.
Jay Krause. Mel & Jayne Bloom brought us a rescued Torah from Europe and we were now a Shul.

It has been a pleasure and very rewarding to see the growth from a few dedicated families to
where we are today.

THANK YOU Mazel Tov
TO OUR DONORS
Peninsula Sinai Congregation
Ari Beliak and Elise Nahum-Beliak
Sue Blockstein and Mike Sokolsky on celebrating

James Buatti 50 years!
Beverly Friedman
Philip Kahn and Marilyn Elperin We are grateful & blessed to have
Ron Scheinbach been a part of this beautiful community

Saul and Barbara Zenk since its inception in Foster City
40 years ago.

-Mireille & David Hamaoui

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PENINSULA SINAI

CONGREGATION

MAZEL TOV

FOR 50 YEARS!

May we be dancing together
again at the next 50 year gala!
Save the Date: May 20, 2067

The Scott and Pamela Ambramson Family

MAZEL TOV TO PSC!

Thank you to our clergy, office staff, lay leaders and
congregants -- you all do so much to keep our

congregation thriving. We’re honored to be part of
this warm, welcoming community

JUNE BELL, NEIL MENDELSON & SAM

What makes PSC worth celebrating?

Our devoted clergy has always
provided leadership, spirituality

creativity and humor. The
thoughtfulness, openness and hard
work of our community and volunteers
keeps us on our pathway forward.

PSC is a place for our family to
rejoice, to pray, to reflect and to
cry, and of course, to eat and
schmooze. Thank you for always
being there, L’dor va-dor.
Happy 50th!! Mark, Lori, Michael
and Andrew LaZar

MAZAL TOV
to our entire
PSC community.

Jerry & Carol Rosenblatt

Peninsula Sinai Congregation has been part of the Kay Family for
more than forty years. We treasure all our friends made through
the congregation and all the encouragement given to our family
as we move from one life cycle event to another. A special “thank
you” to Rabbi Helfand and Rabbi Goodman for all their kind and

supportive advice and friendship to us and our family.

MAZEL TOV ON 50 YEARS
AS A COMMUNITY!

Sandra & Dennis Kay; Allyson & Steve Strauss;
Heather & Ken Weissel, Lorenz & Roman;
Matt & Kate Kay, Owen & Jack
From generation to generation...

AN INCREDIBLE

50YEARS
Congratulations

Peninsula Sinai Congregation

for 50 “chart-topping” years of cultivating
community, practicing Tikkun Olam, and embracing

Jewish Peoplehood.

PJCC

The Peninsula Jewish Community Center values our PSC
partnership and collaborative commitment to enhancing and
strengthening the Jewish community for generations to come.

Mazel Tov!

FROM OUR
CONGREGATIONS

TO YOURS...

On behalf of
Rabbi Nat Ezray, Congregation Beth Jacob
Rabbi Dennis J. Eisner, Peninsula Temple Beth El
Rabbi Daniel Feder, Peninsula Temple Sholom

Mazal tov to Peninsula Sinai Congregation on 50 years of
commitment to the Jewish Community. We look forward to building

meaningful Jewish life together for generations to come.

L’CHAIM
TO PSC!

Linda and Bob Kiss
Tamara and Vladimir Kaplan

Fred Zemke
Sandra Springer, Attorney at Law
Elizabeth Lyster and Michael Shifrin

The Oestreich Family
Phyllis Lippe
Sandy Greene
Allegra Sockol

Lisa and Mitch Reitman and Family
Hal and Vicky Kalish
Susan Lessin
Rachel Freeman

Yedida Kanfer and Brian Goldstein
Langer Family

David and Audrey Silverman
The Oberstein Family

Dan, Leyla, Noah and Jacob Galatin

Peninsula Sinai Congregation would
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MAZEL TOV
ON 50 YEARS

PENINSULA SINAI CONGREGATION
YOU BRING US TOGETHER
Thank you to Rabbi Corey

Rabbi Rebecca and Cantor Doron
“THE VILLAGE”

Joelle, Jessica, Regina, Neal, Aaron, Paul,
Ben, Lilah, Taylor, Ilan, Isaac,
Ariel, Sivana & Szerena

THANK
YOU PSC

for ensuring we have a welcoming
community. We are delighted to
be part of the family!

Gracie, Warren, Vanessa, and Max Lieberman