Dear Fellow Congregant:

The annual meeting of the McHenry County Jewish Congregation will be held Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 10:30 am. The meeting will include:

• State of the Congregation (Officers Report)
• Board of Directors Election, 2018-19
• Rabbi’s Comments
• Open discussion of congregational matters

The annual meeting coincides with year-end school activities, which will begin at 9:15 am. All members are encouraged to attend the annual meeting starting at 10:30 am, as your input is vital to our success. We hope you also plan to attend our annual school closing picnic, which will start at about 11:15 am.

Each family membership is entitled to two votes (member must be 18 or older). Single members are entitled to one vote.

A quorum (25% of eligible voters) is required to conduct congregational business, so it is important you either attend or provide a proxy. If you cannot attend, you are allowed to designate a vote by proxy. You may print out and sign the proxy below and send it along with a member who is attending the May 17 meeting, or you may cut, paste and complete the proxy and email it to MCJC to Robert.Perbohner@gmail.com or jbfishman@fishmanmillerpc.com

Your vote is necessary to advance the business of this congregation this coming year by voting for or against the slate presented to the congregation by the Nominating Committee. (Also attached is a Proxy Ballot)

MCJC’s Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the following slate of officers for consideration for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

Officers
Karen Koenig – co-President
Andy Purvin – co-President (acting Secretary)
Dara Turnball – co-President
Jennifer Finger – Treasurer

At-Large Board Members
Robb Tadelman
Leslie Cook
Steve Danzig
Mark Goldberg
Iza Celewicz

We hope you will be able to join us on the May 6. If you have any questions, you can contact Rob Perbohner (robert.perbohner@gmail.com) or me.

Sincerely yours,

Jack Fishman
MCJC President
jbfishman@fishmanmillerpc.com

Please cut and paste, complete the proxy, and email it to me at jbfishman@fishmanmillerpc.com or to Rob Perbohner at robert.perbohner@gmail.com — or employ the tried-and-true technique of printing out the proxy, signing it, and giving it to a member who is attending the meeting.

PROXY

I, _____________________________________________, will not be able to attend the Congregational Meeting of MCJC on May 6, 2018. I designate the congregant member below to vote on all matters on my behalf.

Signed,

(Signature)

(Printed Name)

DESIGNATED PROXY

(Printed name of Proxy)

(Date)

MCJC Connections
November/December 2017 ~ Cheshvan/Kislev/Tevet ~ Vol. 5778

In the frenzy of activities leading up to this year’s
High Holy Days, some very ambitious, brave members
collaborated to give our kitchen a fresh look.

Eileen Franks, Adrienne Himmelfarb, Esther Kaplan and Leslie Cook painstakingly organized and cleaned our community
kitchen.

Our MCJC Maintenance Crew followed up and attached new red knobs on cabinets in the rearranged meat section, added power sources, added a shelf for disposables so they are more accessible and easier to track and carried out the gargantuan task of cleaning the adhesive off the counter tops from contact paper. A big Todah Rabbah to Dale Mortenson, Steve Borress and Gene Lindow.

As part of the much-needed project, a small, new
refrigerator was purchased by Eileen Franks for upstairs, to be
used for Shabbat morning Kiddushes.

In coming days, we hope to order a few new items so that we have fully operational dairy, meat and pareve sections. With the cleaning and reorganizing, filling in some missing pieces, our new little refrigerator and some quality equipment we purchased with our Israel Day grant, we can enjoy and learn together in our community kitchen.

Todah Rabbah, everyone!