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Meyer Nathans Award Honors Jane Dystel

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Jane Dystel

The Meyer W. Nathans Service Award is presented annually to recognize individuals for their outstanding contribution of service over many years to the Congregation. We are very pleased to announce that Jane Dystel will be honored as this year’s award recipient. Jane exemplifies the type of selfless service to the community for which “Mike” Nathans himself was well known, demonstrating what it means to be an active and engaged member of our community.

Jane and her husband Steve Schwinder joined CRS in 1999 with son, Zachary and daughter, Jessica. Zach, a Bar Mitzvah and Confirmand of CRS, is an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

She has served on the CRS Board of Trustees and chaired the Communications and Adult Ed Committees. When she became chair of the Adult Ed Committee, she hoped that her passion for adult Jewish education along with her “publishing knowledge would help to enhance our curriculum.” In fact, she was instrumental in developing new program ideas that generated interest and increased attendance, leaving a lasting legacy. With her astute insight, she has been a dependable participant in the Ritual, Rabbinic Search, Board of Trustees Nominating, and Cantorial Search Committees, and was chair of the CRS 175th Anniversary celebration’s Comedy and Community Event. Jane also received the Gemilut Chasadim award for her work in the Backpack Buddies program.

Jane is President of the literary management agency, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, which she founded in 1994. Known for having a strong commitment to her authors and their writing careers, she represented President Obama’s first book, Dreams From My Father. She has said that the most important thing she learned from working in the publishing business is that “it is full of wonderful new ideas and creative ways of making them work.” She has certainly brought that same desire and determination to everything she does at our beloved Congregation.

Jane, we mourned with you when you lost your father who died at the age of 101 in 2014. Oscar Dystel was a publishing legend who headed Bantam Books for thirty years. Just as he was well known for making shrewd judgments, your Rodeph Sholom family has reliably counted on you for that same sound reasoning.

We are grateful for all that you do for the Rodeph Sholom community. Your dedication, generosity, and commitment made a difference. For your outstanding contributions to the Congregation, we say thank you and Yasher Koach!


Past Meyer W. Nathans Service Award Recipients

1991     Meyer “Mike” Nathans

1992     Henry Jacoby

1993     Nancy Solomon

1994     Hon. Helen Freedman

1995     Mary Sue Harkavy

1996     Joanna Kapner and Aaron Spiegel

1997     Jay Kranis

1998     Frederick Rudd

1999     John Kowal

2000     Alan Rosenthal

2001     Arnold Harkavy

2002     Roberta Semer

2003     Karen and Robert Weintraub

2004     Dr. Ann Beaton

2005     Bea Bayer

2006     Stephanie Lasher

2007     Donna Schragis and Joni Peltz

2008     W. W. Chuck Weiss

2009     Paul Arnsten and David Fleischer

2010     Debra Frischer

2011     Clare Sheridan

2012     Joseph Singer

2013     Susan and Doug Nemens

2014     Sarah Brooks and Rita Lichtenstein

2015     Arnold Bressler

2016     Catherine Sull and Dr. Jacalyn Shafer

2017     Sloan Schickler

2018     Janie Roher and Claudia Wagner

2019     Nancy Crown and Gina Levine

2020     Jane Dystel

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