Picture Gallery (special categories)

At the Club — Beit Ha’Am

Ami Tzubery, Aryeh Wetherhorn
Aryeh Wetherhorn, Joel Bailey
Ros Herz, Ron Lowenstein
Susan Bedein, Steve Goldberg
Bernard Rosinsky, Vardith Schwartz, Elaine Saltsman
Josh Goldberg, Peggy Friedlander
Jonathan Wreschner, Ruth Ogdan, Shirley Zauer
Rena Schwartz, Abba Hydara, TS
Surprise for Alice Jonah on her 80th birthday: daughter Ruthie, Chani Katz, Paul Serkin
Chanukah at the Club
Roger Friedland lights the chanukiah
Joan Berg
TS, David Litke, Aron Pellach, David Spolter, Charles Cohen
Rena Schwartz, TS, Hilda Ben Nun, David Litke
Wendy Elliman, Pamela Loval, Joel Bailey, Sara Schachter
Boards!
Full house
Scrabble action
Roger Friedland, Elana Marsden
Dahlia Friedman, Ruth Ogdan, Queene Parness
Joel Bailey, ?, Hadassah Braun, Sara Schachter
Joel Bailey, Michael Kennard, Dahlia Friedman, Jonathan Wreschner, Liran Altman, Wendy Elliman, Judy Montagu, Shirley Zauer, Chani Katz
Ruth Ogdan, Heather Rockman -- the 1,000th!
Madeline Wetherhorn
Scrabble School: Cilla Meroz, Stella Schossberger, Elana Marsden, Eddie Levenston, David Litke

At the Club — YMCA, Beit Shmuel, ICCY

Madeline and Aryeh Wetherhorn, Beit Shmuel
Barry Chamish, Raquelle Azran, Madeline Wetherhorn, at Beit Shmuel
At play in Beit Shmuel
Dora Munzberg, Peggy Friedlander, Sam Orbaum at Beit Shmuel
Ella Abramov, Mia Pincu, Paloma Raychbart, Bill Blum, Aubrey Lipman at ICCY, 1988
Zev Kesselman and Esther Gerber, at ICCY, 1988
Sam Orbaum, ICCY, 1988: the five-point K marking the Club's 5th anniversary
Mitzi Antflick, Barry Chamish, Sam Orbaum, Aryeh Wetherhorn and Dora Munzberg, ICCY, 1988
Zev Kesselman and JJ Jonah, ICCY, 1988
Sam Orbaum, YMCA, 1984

Days Long Gone

Rita Baumgarten, Alice Jonah, Madeline Wetherhorn
The Franklin. Before we could check words on iPhones and iPads
Back row: David Litke, Moshe Feingold, Steve Goldberg, Roger Friedland, Maor Eichler, Evan Cohen, Richard Aron;. Front row; Dahlia Friedland, Rachelle Ben-David, Nomi Paynton, Zev Kesselman, Eddie Levenston, Roz Grossman, Israel Shafir, Hilda Ben Nun, Pamela Loval, Shmuel Sussman, Gila Blits, Liliane Servier, Tamar Iancu, Joel Bailey
JSC logo
Historic board and tiles
The clock, before we went digital
The first edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
A cake to celebrate an early Scrabble tourney, December 1982: Dora Munzberg, Raya, Pamela Loval, Eddie Levenston, Queene Parnes, Zev Kesselman, Sara Schachter, Sam Orbaum
Score-keeping, before we went onto the computer
Tourney in Tiberias: front row: ?, Sam Orbaum, Bill and Harold Blum
Pamela Loval, Michelle Blum, Sam Orbaum, Tova Blum, Sara Schachter, Moshe Feigold, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Alice Jonah, Liliane Servier
A wooden rack, varnished to mark a Club divisional win

Informal Meets

Scrabble shabbat at the Wetherhorns 1986: Alice Jonah, Rachel and Richard Aron, Sam Orbaum, Talya and Aryeh Wetherhorn
Sam Orbaum meets Alfred Butts at the North American Scrabble Championships, 1985
Cecily Davis and David Litke run into each other on a cruise, 2012 -- and, of course, play!
Chani hosts a Scrabble day, 2013: Madeline Wetherhorn, Ephry Jonah, Aryeh Wetherhorn, Wendy Elliman, Hazel Haberer, Chani Katz; (in front) Alice Jonah and Judy Montagu
JJ Jonah and Paloma Raychbart at the National Scrabble Championships, Washington, DC, 1997
Fred Reifenberg and Alice Jonah in one of the Club's earliest tourneys
JJ Jonah plays a Saudi Arabian opponent at the National Scrabble Championships, Washington, DC, 1997
Sam Orbaum and Mike Baron
Mike Baron, Roz Grossman and Sam Orbaum
Lag B'Omer Scrabble at the Rosinskys': Etta Margalit, Lesley Rosinsky, David Litke, Elana Marsden, Wendy Elliman
Lag B'Omer Scrabble at the Rosinskys': Vardith Schwartz, Evelyn Sunray, David Spolter, David Litke, Alice Jonah
No Club, so Scrabble at Wendy's: Mia Pincu, Hilda Ben Nun, Richard Aron, Sara Schachter, Ron Lowenstein, Hadassah Braun, Alice Jonah, Wendy Elliman and Rita Baumgarten
Talya Wetherhorn's cake, 1986
Mia Pincu, Hazel Haberer, Sara Schachter and Alice Jonah, Kibbutz Tzora, mid-1980s
Bar mitzvah of Brenda's eldest son, 2006: Brenda Fessbinder, Alice Jonah, Rena Schwartz, Wendy Elliman
Scrabble in Wendy's sukka, 2006: Ami Tzubery, David Litke, Zev Kesselman, Zelig Leader and Roger Friedland
Sam hosts a Scrabble morning for Mike Baron: David Litke, Sam Orbaum, Mike's wife Pamina and daughter Melina, Mike Baron

Portraits

Sara Schacter, 1915 to 2013

Focaccia on Monta Ray Beach, Tel Aviv, December 2, 2012
Candlelight Scrabble, Monta Ray Beach, Tel Aviv, December 2, 2012
Wine & artichokes, January 9, 2013
Post-surgery with her daughter-in-law
Have oxygen, will play! July 21, 2013
Sara at the Club
Sara
With Pamela and Ruth, cruise to Santorini
93rd birthday at the Club
Jerusalem Post announcement
Judy Montagu's Jerusalem Post tribute
96th birthday orchids, October 28, 2011
Scrabble in the rain, January 9, 2013
TS's tribute, August 12, 2013