Fabrangen Auction

Sunday, March 19 from 2:30-5:00 p.m.

Thanks from Fran Goldman & Deb Kolodny:

"We had about 100 people in attendance, an incredible array of donated items, delicious food, fun entertainment, and we raised a significant amount money to support our community and even brought in one new member. While the final tally is not yet final, it appears that we have raised close to $6,000!!!

A very big and heartfelt todah rabah to Deb Kolodny who conceived of the Silent Auction and created and chaired the Fundraising Committee until mid-February (only a major snowstorm stopped her!). Simply put, without her energy, leadership, and creativity, this event would not have happened.

And, oh the items that people donated! That challah cover from Ann-Marie Deutsch. The two
quilts from Ellen Garshick, the mezuzah from Rachel Braun, the photo montage from Lloyd Wolf and the mizrach from Elena Rodriguez. And the services! The car wash, the kayak trip, the Capital tour, the scrabble game, the zoo trip. And the cd's, the books, the judaica. The challot from Deena Goldsmith and the meals from Gilah Langner and Martin Weil, and the month's work of fruits and vegetables and on and on. WOW!

A special thanks to Clare Feinson who did an UNBELIEVABLE amount of work in taking donations and making bid forms and certificates for everything, to Bob Rovinsky for securing Gails' Vegetarian Catering to donate amazing food and serve it too! to Gloria Whitman for getting the snacks and to Melissa Kahn for all those nuts and dried fruits that we were going to use for the seder, to Fran Goldman for helping all along the way and for taking over the overall leadership from Deb Kolodny and to Bracha Laster and Laurie Krieger for rounding out the fundraising committee, helping to plan and direct the event.

Today rabah and yasher koach to ...

-- Braha Laster who handled the check-out, along with her able crew of Laurie Krieger, Ruth Lis, and Debbie Goldman
-- Laurie Krieger who coordinated music for the auction from a half-world away in the Philippines where she has been travelling for work the last several weeks, and to all those who brought CD's,
... to Sarah LaRue who handled childcare today so that parents could spend their time bidding rather than babysitting.
... to Jerry Stilkind, Gerry Garfinckel, and Caleb Kreisberg who helped set-up and provided extra hands whenever asked
... to Rhonda Weiss, Allen Hirsch, Melissa Kahn, and Gloria Whitman who bought the food and drinks for today's auction
... to Elena Rodriguez who handled the admissions table today, along with Grace Horowitz, Sue Hoechstetter, and Gloria Whitman
... to the fabulous entertainment of Bob Rovinsky (storytelling) and Richard Gladstein (guitar & singing)
... and a repeat thank-you to Gail Naftalin / Gail's Vegeterian Catering (www.gailsvegetarian.com) for the delicious passed appetizers and brownies

... and, last but certainly not least, a big thank-you to everyone who donated and everyone who bid. The whole community was involved and we are enriched by it."

Complete List of Auction Donations

Here are some examples of fabulous donated items!

Two copies photograph of ceiling at 6th and I Historic Synagogue by Carl Dahlke (22” x 22”) – Unframed; printed with archival inks on archival fine art paper. Donated by Carl Dahlke.

Donated by David Smith & Roz Soref. Framed and matted (14" x 11.5" total size) 9" x 6" color print by Beth Soref of waterfalls at Stony Brook State Park, New York, located near Dansville, NY, which is south of Rochester. Beth, a long time Fabrangen member, whose passion is nature photography, graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Fine Arts as a major Visual Media-- Photography major.

An 11" x 14" print (archivally framed to 16" x 20") by Lloyd Wolf from the Circles Within Circles series - currently on view at the exhibition at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.

A  framed Mizrach cross-stitched to order for the winning bidder - donated by Elena Rodriguez. This mizrach was designed by Barbara Ann Richter and the pattern was created for the Nov/Dec 1994 issue of Just CrossStitch magazine. It includes beadwork as well as cross-stitching. The finished piece will be about 8" x 10" not including the frame. Framing donated by David Goldston. The example pictured above is on loan from the collection of Victoria Kahn.

An autographed copy of Kantikas de Amor y Vida, a cd of Sephardic duets by Ramón Tasat and Flory Jagoda, donated by Victoria Kahn.