Temple Emunah has an annual Brotherhood dinner and Man of the Year event. This year, because of COVID-19., we did it on Zoom. Our dinner is usually a deli dinner. We coordinated with Levine's Kosher Meat Market to order individual family orders including hor d'oeuvres. sandwiches, sides, and dessert for pick-up. One of our Brotherhood members set up an ordering form via Google docs that were automatically added to a summary spreadsheet to give to Levines. We also set up payment by check, PayPal or Venmo. Note: Todd Levine is from Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody. The Brotherhood also brews a batch of beer every year and distributes it at the event. This year when families picked up their deli the afternoon of the event, we also distributed the beer. At the event itself, we had our usual agenda and brought speakers to honor our Man of the Year from as far as New Mexico. We worked with the honoree's wife to deliver the gifts in advance. We also did a reheaesal Zoom before the event to make sure everyone's technology worked.

It was ironic that this year's honoree was chairman of the House Committee for 10 years and is still on the committee. But I digress. The results 108 attendees had deli dinners. We delivered beer to all of the families that requested it. 85 families attended the event (representing about 140 people). The event usually has 80-120 attendees at our in-person events. As far as the honoree was concerned, he was literally moved to tears.