With solar installation, Salem’s Jewish temple wants to be a community hub during natural disasters
Temple Beth Sholom on Saturday, June 26, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
As Millie Estrin lay on her deathbed in her Salem home, she extracted a promise from her rabbi: Salem’s Temple Beth Sholom would complete the solar project she had long pushed for.
Two years later, the temple is months away from a 50-kilowatt installation that will bear Estrin’s name: the MillieWatt.
“It was such an amazing thing to watch her literally on the doorstep…
