Mazal Tov! to our Congregation for receiving a 2009 Irving J. Fain Social Action Award, presented to Dr. Asher Sheppard, Social Action Committee Co-Chairperson, and Rabbi Douglas Kohn at the Reform Movement’s biennial Social Action convention, the Consultation on Conscience on Monday in Washington, D.C., in recognition of our Tu B’Shevat Gleanings Project! Pictures of the award presentation, and of Rabbi Kohn with Senator Barbara Boxer, below.

Left: Dr. Asher Sheppard, Temple Social Action Committee Co-Chair, with Rabbi Douglas Kohn, receiving the Fain award from Dr. Cheryl Guttman, Chairperson of the Commission on Social Action, April 20.

Right: Rabbi Douglas Kohn was asked to welcome Senator Barbara Boxer (middle) at the Consultation on Conscience, in the Russell Senate Office Building, April 21