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Kick-Off
Barbecue:
Sunday, September 21, 2008,
2 pm - 6 pm, at the home of
Phil Whitebloom
6254 Summer Home Terrace
Elkridge, MD 21075
please RSVP by clicking
here:

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Sunday Brunch
Meetings:
Brunch Meetings begin at 9:00AM in the new
Temple Isaiah building on MD-216, approximately 2.1 miles west of
US-29.
October 5, 2008: Barry
E. Bogage, Executive Director of the Maryland/Israel Development
Center (MIDC), a non-profit organization that promotes trade and
joint ventures between Maryland and Israeli companies and research
institutions. The MIDC is a partnership between the Maryland
Department of Business and Economic Development, Israel's Ministry
of Industry and Trade and The ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community
Federation of Baltimore.
Earlier, Mr. Bogage worked for the
Prince George's County Economic Development Corporation as the
Director of Research and Information. Closer to (our) home, he
served as the Director of Howard County's Office of Economic
Development. Prior to his current position, Mr. Bogage was the
Director of Business Development for Welsh Development International
Inc., the North American marketing arm of the Welsh Development
Agency of Great Britain. In this capacity, Mr. Bogage marketed the
Principality of Wales as a European location for American
manufacturers.
A native of Baltimore, Mr. Bogage
graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in Government
and Politics, concentrating on Israeli and Middle Eastern history
and politics. He lived in Israel for three years as a student and
community development worker. He is married and has twin sons.

4th Annual Bowling
Event:
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008
Great Prizes –
Everyone Wins!!
+
Great Fun!
Great Food!
Bowling @ Brunswick Columbia
Dining @ 3 Brothers
Lanes - meet there @ 2:15
pm
dine at 4:45 pm
Price: $40/person includes shoe
rental, bowling, prizes, and dinner. Register by Oct. 20,
2008. : For additional information, contact:
and please register using THIS RSVP
Button >>>>
Then send your
check to:
TI Mens
Club
6304 Bright Plume
Columbia, MD 21044
November
2, 2008: John Eisenberg, sports columnist for the
"Baltimore Sun" from 1984 until 2007, hopping the globe
covering events such as Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, the Final Four,
the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, the Masters, the Olympics and
soccer's World Cup. He won more than 20 awards, including several
firsts in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors contest.
Before joining "The Sun", he worked for the "Dallas
Times Herald" for five years.
John also authored six
books of sports-themed nonfiction, most recently "My Guy Barbaro,"
co-written with Hall of Fame horse racing jockey Edgar Prado. Before
that, he wrote "The Great Match Race," about the first major
sports event in American history, a North-South horse race in 1823. He
also published "The Longest Shot: Lil E. Tee and the Kentucky
Derby", "Cotton Bowl Days: Growing Up With Dallas and the
Cowboys in the 1960s", "From 33rd Street to Camden Yards: An
Oral History of the Baltimore Orioles", and "Native Dancer,
the Grey Ghost: Hero of a Golden Age."
A native of Dallas,
Texas, and a University of Pennsylvania graduate, John lives in Towson
with his wife, Mary Wynne, and their children: Anna, a junior at the
University of Maryland, and Wick, a senior at the Friends School of
Baltimore.

December
7, 2008: Asher Epstein, Managing Director of the Dingman
Center for Entrepreneurship, Robert H. Smith School of Business,
University of Maryland. Asher will speak on "Building an
Investment Philosophy for the Long Term". Mr.
Epstein has an undergraduate degree in English and History as well
as a Certificate of Management Studies from the University of
Rochester. He received an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of
Business.
Asher
Epstein joined the Dingman Center full time during the summer of
2004. Prior to that he held a variety of management and operational
positions working with Fortune 500 companies and startups. His
clients included AT&T, the Bank of Montreal, Bezeq Ltd. and
Chevy Chase Bank. Mr. Epstein has extensive start-up experience. He
has co-founded a company, raised money from angel investors, managed
an early stage company through 10X growth and has consulted with
almost 150 different early stage companies and is on the board of
three ventures. He has traveled to almost 40 countries, including
China repeatedly and India.
Asher currently
lives with his wife and children in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

January
11, 2009:
Annual
joint brunch meeting with Kol Nashim. Jeff Davis and members of the
temple board will answer questions and engage in lively conversation
on the happenings and "State
of the TI".

February 1,
2009: Super Bowl Trivia events
in preparation for the day's big game.

March 1,
2009: Guy
Guzzone, A
Baltimore native and Columbia resident, Guy Guzzone served on the
Howard County Council from 1998 to 2007. Mr. Guzzone served as
Council Chairman until he took his seat in the Maryland House of
Delegates representing the 13th District. He is currently the
chairman of Howard County's House Delegation.
Delegate Guzzone graduated
from the University of Maryland in 1986 with bachelor's degrees in
both economics and in government & politics. He later earned a
M.P.M. in public management in 1988. He currently serves on the
House Appropriations Committee and its health & human resources
and personnel oversight subcommittees.

Friday March
20th 2009, 6:15 pm:
followed by our Mens Club Shabbat Service. Dinner is FREE
to all Full Members (those who paid for all brunches for the entire year). The cost
for others is $25/adult,
$15/child (12 and under).
Please use THIS
button to RSVP for the dinner.
You must register using THIS RSVP button by
Tuesday,
March 10. Then, send your check (if applicable), payable to TI Mens Club,
to:
TI Mens
Club
6304 Bright Plume
Columbia, MD 21044

Saturday
evening April 4th 2009:
Charles
Town Races and Slots
A trip to
Charles Town Races and Slots in Charles Town, West Virginia, for the
evening (approximately 6 PM to 11 PM) of Saturday April 4. This trip
is open to all temple members - the more the merrier! Please invite
your friends and their spouses to join us for a few hours of food
and fun at this great gaming location, just an hour and twenty
minutes away. Cost (including the Prime Rib and Seafood Buffet) will be
about $33 per person- this includes tax, gratuity, and soft drinks.
http://www.ctownraces.com/site/index.php

Brunch:
Sunday, April 5, 2009:
Avi Decker,
Executive Director of the Jewish Museum of Maryland. The Museum was
founded in 1960 to rescue and restore the historic Lloyd Street
Synagogue, and has become a cultural center for the Jewish community
and for those interested in Jewish history and traditions.
For additional
information, see:
http://www.jewishmuseummd.org/

May 3,
2009:
Temple Isaiah's own Rabbi
Panoff will be our speaker. His topic
will be: Israel, Gaza and Ahmadinejad

June
7, 2009: 5th Matzohball Run @ Centennial Park
For information, click on image:

Beginning two weeks
before each brunch, you should use these
links to indicate
that you will be attending that Brunch:
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