Congregations Sons of Israel to honor dedicated members

Karen and Dr. Myron Boxer and Pepi and Marcel Buchsbaum will be honored for their commitment to serving Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere at the shul’s annual Journal Dinner on June 12.

The Boxers, who live in Woodmere joined the congregation 40 years ago. Karen worked part time her husband’s podiatry office. She became a became of member of the synagogue’s Education Committee, then the Woodmere Sisterhood. She served three separate terms as co-president. Karen also served on several other committees and is long-standing member of the Board of Trustees.

Dr. Boxer served as chairman of the Division of Medicine at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine, a director of the department of Podiatry at Gouveneur Hospital in Manhattan and director of the Department of Surgery, Division Podiatry at the now closed Peninsula Hospital Center in Far Rockaway.

Born in displace persons camps in Germany to Holocaust survivors, the Buchsbaums moved to Hewlett in 1979 and dedicated themselves to service at the synagogue since then. Marcel has been an active member of the Board of Trustees for more than a decade and is past chairman of the Education Committee and currently chairs the Ritual Committee, co-chairs the Gemilut Chasadim Committee with Karen Boxer that coordinated the congregation’s biennial blood donor drive and is on the Executive Committee.

Pepi is retired from the airline industry and Marcel is retired after a lengthy teaching career at John Jay High School in Park Slope, Brooklyn.