Yavneh Zoogs Who Married
Below are a few of the wonderful stories of Yavneh zoogs who have married.
Judy White & Seymour "Shalom" Schiff
Mimi Furman & Jack Aronson
Arleen Berger & Warren Bargard
Roberta Mades & Norman Milgram
Margie Tarmy & Stan Berkowitz
Ora Gorovitz & Arnold Band
Tova Feivou & Chaim Heifitz
Ruth Hurwitz & Barry Ehrlich
Roz Tabachnick & Paul Schneid
Carol Helfin & Ira Wallach
Gilda Micley & Alan Flashman
Joan Paller & Harvey Bines
Rosalyn Kestenbaum & David Clayman
Laura Bailen & Howard Kaufman
Margie Pepper & Jeff Kaufman
Sue Unger & Matty Green
Gwenne Berger & Craig Forman
Barbara Wolf & Steve Jablow
Beth Goldberg & Ronnie Forman
Karen Jacobs & Tevy Dines
Carrie Wald & Jeff Budd
Jenn Judd & Jeff Finkelstein
Ellen Schiffer & Jonathan Berkowitz
Melanie Levy & Doron Fagelman
Shire Loewenstein & Yehudah Potok
Daniella Pressner & Saul Strosberg
Sara Paster & Josh Haskin
Becca Slotnick & Steve Shimshack
Nat Strossberg & Shira Garber
Jessica Gould & Efraim Yudewitz
Margie Ross & Adam Decter
Jessica Gray & Ari Sussman
Lexi Schieber & Jon Gradman
Nicole Greenberg & Jon Lopkin
Renee Greenberg & Jef Bratspis
Ari Rosenblum & Ariel Eder
Susan Hiller and Aron Troen
Ari Rosenblum and Arriel Eder
London
Ari & Arriel Rosenblum got married on November 15, 2009 in MA. It was an incredible day. Yavneh friends from Kerems 2000, 2003, 2004 and even some of their campers from 2007 joined them to celebrate the day. The happy couple live in London.
Carrie and Jeff Budd
Dunwoody, GA
I first saw my husband Jeff Budd when both of us won scholarships and we were having our pictures taken with other winners for The Jewish Advocate. At that time, neither one of new the other existed except for the picture.
We actually met once we got to camp. We were in younger K'firim and the whole Aydah was invited to the Arayot social that evening. (Not sure now, but then socials were THE thing). He asked me to dance.
I went to his bar mitzvah in '81 and went to camp for all summers between 1981-1984 and we were in Kerem together-1984. We were good friends through high school and college where it became more serious. We both graduated in 1990 and were married in '92. In some way or another we have been dancing together ever since.
Now our girls are now campers there as well, carrying on the Yavneh tradition.
Jonathan Berkowitz and Ellen Schiffer Berkowitz
Dedham, MA
Ellen and I met at Yavneh in 1988 when we were 12 and 13 years old. The funny thing is that my parents, Margie and Stanley Berkowitz, also met at Yavneh when they were 13 years old so the concept of a Yavneh zoog getting married wasn’t a totally foreign thing to me. It was to Ellen, but eventually she saw the light! Our fondest memories of Yavneh are having 4 hour a night phone conversations during the school year and waiting all year in anticipation of coming back to camp where we could be together. Ellen and I continued our long distance relationship through college and married in 1998. We have two sons pictured attached, Noah and Jesse, and will always be in love with Yavneh. Needless to say, both boys will be attending Yavneh and there will be high expectations!!!!
Lexi Schieber
The agam will always hold a special place in our hearts.The summer I was sgan rosh agam and Jon was teaching fishing and roaming around the beach playing mandolin was the summer we fell in love. Who can resist in such a romantic atmosphere? Or maybe Estelle just worked her magic?
Rabbi Yehudah Potok and Shira Loewenstein
Berkeley, CA
Shira and I met for the first time in the summer of 1998. She was in Kerem and I had just come back for Maccabiah for two weeks after having been a counselor on Naaleh. I don’t actually remember that meeting but apparently Shira does. I then was the counselor for Shira’s Naaleh cohort in the summer of 1999. We started going out the summer of 2001, got engaged in Israel during the academic year of ‘02-’03, and got married in January of 2004. We now have one son, Adiel (age 3), and are expecting another baby imminently.
Shira got to camp through her mom who was Boston born and raised and worked at Yavneh for one summer. Her aunt Ora and Uncle Arnie Band were also very involved back in the day. I got involved in Yavneh through the Finkelstein family. Shulie, my older sister had met Reica Finkelstein in JTS when the 3 Potok children happened to be looking for a summer camp and sure enough that brought us to Yavneh. I still remember my interview with Debbie at the JTS building during the ’92-’93 academic year.
We still hold Yavneh in a very special place in both of our hearts and miss it dearly.
