Giving | Donating to TEC Support our Tree of Life
Click on the fund name for a description to help you decide how you would like to enhance Temple Etz Chaim with your tribute.
Men’s Club Funds
Sisterhood Fund
Dunaier Music Fund Donations to this fund are used to maintain and enhance our musical programming as well as our existing sound systems and equipment.
Early Childhood Education Fund Donations to this fund are used to augment the Early Childhood Education program with additional enrichment programs and materials.
Fienberg-Lerner Chapel Minyan Fund Donations to this fund are used to support the Chapel Minyan and other Shabbat services.
Hazzan Duek’s Discretionary Fund Donations to this charitable fund are used for individual, educational and communal needs.
Inbar Israel Scholarship and Education Fund Donations to this fund are used to provide scholarship money to children of TEC members for travel to Israel with organized Jewish youth groups or for study in Israel. The children must be 25 or younger and can receive no more than $1,000, though that $1,000 may be achieved through multiple requests of lower amounts.
Jotkowitz Camp Ramah Fund Donations to this fund are used to award scholarships for children to attend Camp Ramah.
Library Funds
- Zerlin Book Fund
- Barry Cantor Memorial Fund
Donations to these funds are used to purchase books and supplies for the Cohen Family Library.
Ner Tamid Education & Community Center Funds
- Barbara & Harvey Scherr Memeoria Fund
- Arnold Organ Memorial Fund
- Jack Kirby Memorial Fund
Donations to these funds are used to maintain and enhance the new building.
Rabbi Spiegel’s Discretionary Fund Donations to this charitable fund used for individual, educational and communal needs.
Religious School Fund Donations to this fund funds are used to augment the Religious School with additional enrichment programs and materials.
Religious School Scholarship Funds
- Elisa Feldman Memorial Religious School Scholarship Fund
- Lipnick Religious School Scholarship Fund
Donations to these funds provide scholarships for Religious School tuition.
Ritual Fund Donations to this fund are used to purchase ritual objects and prayer books used in the performance of regular, minyan and holiday services.
Tzedakah Fund Donations to this fund are sent to charitable agencies in Israel.
USY Youth & Scholarship Fund Description: funds are used to augment the USY program with additional enrichment programs and materials as well as provide scholarships to offset the cost of sending students to Regional Convention and Kinnusim.
No Preference (Temple General Fund) Donations to this fund are used at Board discretion.
Men’s Club Funds
Scholar-in-Residence Donations to this fund provide financial support for the Men’s Club annual Acholar-in-Residence program, which brings renowned scholars to TEC for a weekend of congregational study and learning on contemporary issues.
Silverstein Humanitarian Fund Donations to this fund provide funding for Men’s Club social action activities in support of worthwhile humanitarian causes.
Sisterhood Fund
Torah Fund Donations to this fund enable rabbinic and cantorial students, educators and community leaders to receive a superior education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the Schecter Institute in Jerusalem and at our own Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
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