In a communication to The Chronicle on Dec. 23, officials of Congregation Shir Hadash, Rabbi David Brusin and then-president Eve Dicker Eiseman, announced that officials of the former Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue had donated a Torah scroll to Shir Hadash.
Shir Hadash is the Milwaukee area’s only Reconstructionist movement synagogue. It has had only one Torah scroll, according to the letter.
“Our Torah is aging rapidly, in part because it is always called into service,” the letter states, “but it will now have another with which to share the responsibilities…”
The letter further states that Bob Peterman and Al Simon of the former Beth El “thoughtfully and tenderly helped us decide which” of Beth El’s 13 Torah scrolls “would be the right one for us.”
Beth El this past September “combined spiritual families” with Congregation Beth Israel to form Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid (Conservative). (See September 2012 Chronicle.)
Shir Hadash for many years has been meeting in a basement room in the Beth El building on Mequon Rd. Brusin told The Chronicle that his synagogue continues to meet there “probably through May or June, as we search for a new, permanent home.”
Eiseman ended her term as Shir Hadash president this month, and has been succeeded by Sam Essak.
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