Bet Torah's 75th Anniversary
Rockin’ Around the Bet Torah Clock!
Join us for an unforgettable evening as we celebrate Bet Torah’s 75th Anniversary! Together, we’ll honor Rabbi Brusso for his extraordinary leadership and vision, guiding us from strength to strength.
Our 1950s-themed gala, “Rockin’ Around the Bet Torah Clock,” will take you back in time to where it all began while celebrating the vibrant community we’ve built and our bright future ahead. Dust off your dancing shoes, grab your poodle skirts, and get ready to revel in a night of music, memories, and milestones.
Let’s honor our past, embrace the present, and pave the way for the next 75 years of Bet Torah.
Rabbi aaron brusso
Aaron Brusso is Senior Rabbi of Bet Torah where he has served since 2009.
His son Ilan is a proud graduate of the nursery school lovingly led by Mindy Citera and Ilan has gone on to substitute teach with Gina Fass in the Kulanu program. His daughter Sari was a BT youth group leader and served as a summer morah in the nursery school as well as a Gan teacher in Kulanu. His daughter Zoe was also a BT youth group leader and participated in the Better Together inter-generational program. All three of Rabbi Brusso’s children were trained by Nili Ionascu to read Torah, Haftarah and lead the community in davening. The entire BT community participated in helping to raise them by being kind, supportive, encouraging, modeling Jewish values and always being so happy to see them.
His partner Hana developed her Torah reading skills in the community, is a lifelong card carrying member of BT Sisterhood, has co-led numerous BT trips to Israel and soon to Morocco and has hosted hundreds (thousands?) of BT members for Shabbat and holiday meals.
Rabbi Brusso has made a number of mistakes during his time in the community and found the BT family to be forgiving and gracious. He has learned more Torah from the people he has encountered than he has taught. And he is proud to have grown as a rabbi alongside such an energetically dynamic and growing sacred community. (He is also in line to be president of the Rabbinical Assembly, a 2020 recipient of the Human Rights Hero award from T’ruah for his work on immigration, is a Senior Fellow of the Hartman Institute and has published articles in blah, blah, blah…).
Oh, and he agrees with the quote often attributed to Ben Franklin, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”