Ladies and Gentlemen, I have exciting news to share with you. After a long and thoughtful process, we extended an offer to Rabbi Judi Del Bourgo to join our Har Zion family as Senior Rabbi. I am pleased to say she has

enthusiastically accepted our offer and will be with us full time starting July 5.

Over the time we have spent with Rabbi Del Bourgo, she has displayed the wisdom, compassion, learnedness, and enthusiasm that Har Zion needs in a Rabbi to lead us into the future. For those of you who participated in her weekend visit, I am sure you already know what I am talking about.

As we honor our past and look to the future, we are fortunate that Rabbi Bisman will remain with the Congregation in the role of Rabbi Emeritus. We have been the beneficiaries of his 28 years of dedicated service to our Congregation and our Community, and I am grateful that he will continue to be a resource for Rabbi Del Bourgo and our entire Congregation.

I want to thank the Rabbi Search Committee for the months of dedicated work they expended on behalf of all of us. Most importantly, I am grateful to you, the members of Har Zion. Your active participation in this process helped make the selection of Rabbi Del Bourgo possible.

This is our Congregation. We all share in the responsibility to make Har Zion, our home away from home, our extended famiy, the place of worship, learning and fellowship we know it will continue to be. I believe we have taken a first key step toward embracing our future.

Judy Zola

President of Har Zion Congregation