How to Donate

To make a donation:

1. Download the Donation Form and print it.
2. Select a fund to which you wish to donate. Both Special Funds and Endowment Funds are listed below.
3. Fill out the form with the appropriate information.
4. Mail your check made out to Beth El Temple along with your completed form to:
         Beth El Temple
         2626 Albany Avenue
         West Hartford, CT 06117

Thank you for making a donation to Beth El!

Beth El Special Funds

• Beautification Fund
• Camp Ramah
• Cantor's Music Fund
• Chai Society Fund
• Education Fund
• Friends of Ari Santiago Temple Accessibility Fund
• Hagshamah Fund
• Jewish Continuity Fund
• Judaica Museum Fund
• Library Fund
• Max Goldfield Fund
• Prayerbook Fund
• Rabbi Garber's Discretionary Fund
• Rabbi Rosen's Discretionary Fund
• Student Israel Assistance Fund
• Temple Fund
• The Sidney & Frances Kaplan Audio Fund
• Tsedakah/Chesed Fund
• Youth Activities Fund

Beth El Endowment Funds

• Louis M. Beckenstein Fund
• Naomi and Michael Cohen Fund
• Leonard and Vicki Eisenfeld Endowment Fund
  Supports adult education at Beth El and synagogue-wide programming to enhance Jewish life and rituals.
• Betsy Heilpern Firger Spring Music Fund
  Further artistic, secular and religious music at Beth El.
• Nathan Field Memorial Fund
  Support direct, hands-on projects by Beth El that assist the needy in the Greater Hartford area without respect to religious affiliation.
• Gavens Family College Youth Fund
  Maintain programs and projects for young Jewish adults at Beth El, ages 18-25.
• Yetta Gitlin Fund
• Mildred Glasband Memorial Fund
  Provide scholarship support for teenagers/young adults participation in educational programs in Israel.
• Molly Gold Fund for Jewish Education
  Help students enhance Jewish awareness through field trips, kinnusim, conferences or other consciousness raising experiences.
• Gloria Lavitt Goldenberg Endowment Fund
  Provide music, ritual, Judaica and beautification programs at the Temple.
• Harry E. Goldfarb Endowment Fund for Teacher Training
  Used for specific teacher training including adult education.
• Sadie L. Goldfarb Endowment Fund
• Syd Goldfarb Fund
  Improve elegance and beauty within the confines of the beautification fund.
• Mother Goldstein Fund
  Purchase Kosher wine for Kiddush and festival celebrations.
• Edith Garfinkel Gordon Fund
• Beverly P. and Arnold C. Greenberg Endowment Fund
• Mildred Sanders Greenberg Fund
• Susan and Marvin Grody Family Fund
• Irving and Shirley Gutcheon Congregant Assistance Fund
  Provide support for Beth El families needing financial assistance with regard to their health and welfare, and those requiring hospice or home care.
• Henry Matthew Hillman Youth Scholarship Endowment Fund
  Provide financial assistance to attend USY programs to a deserving member of Beth El’s USY chapter.
• Ben Horowitz Endowment Fund
• Kesten Fund
  To further education at Beth El, especially for Midrasha and Special Ed.
• Ruth and Harry Kleinman Endowment Fund
  Support the Kleinman Weekend Scholar-in-Residence program and similar programs.
• Koppelman Fund
  Support Men’s Club speakers and education for debating.
• Koteen Family Fund
  Support Synagogue-wide programming to enhance Jewish life and rituals.
• Kreinik Family Endowment Fund
• Frances and Louis Ludgin Fund
• Mann Family Organ Fund
  Support for an organist at times when the organ is played at Beth El Temple.
• David Pearl Memorial Fund for Children with Special Needs
  Support enrichment programs for Beth El children with special needs.
• Charles Polivy Endowment Fund
  Support the Chai Society Picnic-on-the-Patio and other Chai Society programs.
• Dr. Leo P. Reiner Endowment Fund
  Sponsor Family Education programs for Beth El parents and children.
• Lois and Alvin Reiner Family Fund
• Henry B. Richmond Fund
• Carol and Mark Rosen Israel Teen Trip Fund
  Support Beth El teens going to Israel.
• Rosen Family Kehillah Kedosha Fund
• Lester P. Roth and Rita Roth Memorial Endowment Fund
  Support the Membership Committee and the Ritual Committee.
• Marshall and Sandra Rulnick Endowment Fund
• Sara and Morris Rulnick Memorial Fund
  Provide Camp Ramah tuition for those who cannot afford it.
• Jennie, Myer and Nickey Sanders Fund
• Michael and Susan Schenker Endowment Fund
• Albert and Mickie Schoolnik Fund
• Eugenie Schoolnik Fund
• Bertha and Sidney Schulman Endowment Fund
  Support the activities of Beth El’s educational IT programs; the Beth El library, including, but not limited to purchase of books, other reading materials, computers and other library aids; support the choir, including by not limited to purchase of sheet music, rental of equipment and payment of guest singers and support the choir’s High Holiday efforts.
• Bruce Shein and Sharon Levine-Shein Endowment Fund
• Shulansky Family Fund
• Anita and Paul Sigel Temple Organ Fund
  Maintain, repair, refurbish and recondition the Sanctuary’s organ and ancillary equipment.
• Rose and Charles Silverman Fund
• Sylvia Clark Solomon Memorial Library Endowment Fund
  Purchase books for the library.
• Leigh A. Newman and Gary S. Starr Family Fund
• Manuel M. Stier Memorial Fund
• Sowalsky Gabbai Rishon Endowment Fund
  Provide appropriate book on Jewish mourning laws, practices and customs to families sitting Shiva.
• Amy E. Toyen Endowment Fund
  Support community activities directed towards Tikun Olam, sponsored or supported by Beth El Temple.
• The Marion and George Trehub Endowment Fund
• Henry, Sylvia/Josh Weiner Fund
  Provide 12th grade graduation book awards; and high school age children’s programs.
• I. Milton Widem Adult Education Fund
  Support adult education and Shabbat forums at Beth El.

Show Someone You Care

Making a donation to one of the many Special or Endowment Funds at Beth El Temple is a wonderful way to show someone you care.
 
You can honor a special event or individual, remember a special individual, wish someone good health or for just about any other reason demonstrate that you care.
 
Download and print the
Donation Form