Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on April 2, 2022

Congregation Brith Shalom will host a Shabbat on Saturday, April 2, at 9:30 a.m., honoring its Mens Club and featuring the Mens Club Man of the Year celebration.

This years Mens Club Man of the Year is Morris Narunsky, who was born in a southern Polish concentration camp shortly after it was liberated. Most of his family, including his three brothers and one sister, were murdered during the Holocaust.

After their Lithuanian ghetto was liquidated, Narunskys parents each were sent to three different concentration camps. His father ended up in Dachau. When Dachau was liberated, he was sent to Feldafing displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany.

His mother heard from others where he was, and she was able to make her way there from Poland with her infant son. When Narunsky was 6 years old, his family immigrated to the United States, settling in Dallas, Texas, while the rest of his surviving family immigrated to Israel.

From his youth, Narunsky always enjoyed attending synagogue services. His family joined Agudas Achim in South Dallas, and when it closed, they joined Shearith Israel in North Dallas.

As a student, Narunsky was highly active in volunteer work. He held offices in several clubs and organizations, both in high school and in college. He graduated from UT Arlington with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering.

Narunskys first engineering position was in San Antonio. There, he met and married Diana at Rodfei Shalom the synagogue that her family attended. His regular attendance was at the Conservative Agudas Achim.

From San Antonio, they moved to Houston, where Narunsky entered the oil and gas industry. The couple lived in Houston 22 years, then his company transferred him to Tulsa, Okla. After five years there, they returned to Houston. He is now semi-retired and offers his engineering services to oil and gas equipment manufacturers, primarily in the offshore arena, and he is active with the Houston branches of four engineering technical societies.

Narunskys love has been service through Mens Clubs. In Tulsa, at Bnai Emunah, he served as Mens Club president for two years. He and Diana joined United Orthodox Synagogues upon settling in Houston, and he became active with UOS Mens Club. Soon after, they joined Congregation Brith Shalom, where he served as Mens Club president for two years.

In addition to the many service projects in which he has participated, Narunsky is known for serving as head usher for High Holy Days services both at Bnai Emunah and at Brith Shalom. He also assumed the current responsibility of arranging ushers for Bar and Bat Mitzvah Shabbatot.

Narunsky served as president of the Southwest Region of the Federation of Jewish Mens Clubs and attended seven FJMC International Conventions. He was honored with the Maasim Tovim Award for the Southwest Region at the 2007 convention.

Although the Brith Shalom Mens Club is no longer affiliated with the FJMC, the club has conducted two of their keynote programs: Hearing Mens Voices chaired by Glenn Lowenstein; and World Wide Wrap chaired by Narunsky.

Diana and Morris have been married 52 years and have two sons. Their oldest, David, and wife, Tasha Narunsky, with granddaughter, Serena, live in Austin. Their youngest, Andrew, and wife, Veronica Narunsky, with grandson, Luke, live in Houston; and granddaughter, Alexis, lives in Colorado.

See the original post:

Brith Shalom to honor Men's Cub and Man of the Year - Jewish Herald-Voice

Category: Synagogue
Tags: