Rabbi Abraham Shusterman Story
Rabbi, Abraham Shusterman (as remembered by Irv Berzon) In 1975-76 Temple Shalom was built and the first Collier County Rabbi, Abraham Shusterman, a retired Baltimore rabbi,
06/20/2018
Rabbi, Abraham Shusterman (as remembered by Irv Berzon) In 1975-76 Temple Shalom was built and the first Collier County Rabbi, Abraham Shusterman, a retired Baltimore rabbi,
Willens, a native Floridian, served as Executive Director of JFCC for 15 years, retiring in 2015.
May 2016 JHS interviewed Florence Hertzman in her waterfront home in Old Naples. Florence and her husband Harold began coming to Naples in the early
Stuart Kaye moved to Naples, FL as a young college graduate at a time when most young people fled Collier County in search of big
Richard Segalman jokes that in addition to being the first Jewish painter of Naples, he may be the first gay painter of Naples. From his
Rosner loved to socialize, but quickly found that her new hometown of Marco Island, which was then being developed by the Deltona Corporation, had neither
in NYC, Irv Berzon lived in a number of other places including Bogota, Columbia; Caracas, Venezuela; Seattle, Washington, before settling in Columbus, OH. “I –
Floridians since 1973, Rabbi Howard Greenstein’s work kept them in Jacksonville, Florida, in a huge congregation with a religious school for 23 years. A small
Helen and Joseph Weinfeld first visited Naples in 1954, when it was a “you blink, you miss” kind of town. They loved it, but decided
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