New Voices April 29 • 7 to 9 p.m.
Leon and Toby Cooperman JCC, West Orange
Women's Awareness Day April 30 • 9:15 a.m. Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus, Whippany
a blog by UJC's Executive VP, Max Kleinman Why This Year's Yom Ha'atzmaut Celebration is so Important Thousands participated at the MetroWest Yom Hazikaron ceremony and Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration following. Yom Hazikaron memorializes the thousands of Israelis killed in the more than half a dozen wars fought since Israel's creation in 1948. In her first War of Independence, 10% of Israel's population was killed, equivalent to 3,000,000 American deaths. That’'s more than all of our combat deaths since our own independence in 1776. >>MORE>>
Jewish Future
by Kim Hirsh, Development Officer, Jewish Community Foundation of MetroWest NJ How We Can Fund A Vibrant Jewish Future Here is a conundrum of the American Jewish community at the start of the 21st century: We have a sickness that threatens our very survival: rampant assimilation. We have discovered the most effective preventive medicine: day school education, Jewish camping, and Israel experiences. (Extensive research has shown that these childhood experiences lead most effectively to committed Jewish adults.) >>MORE>>
From Leslie's Laptop
by Leslie Dannin Rosenthal, President, Women's Philanthropy That doesn'’t sound right — I'd like to talk to you Sometimes the things you think are a "given" are not. Sometimes you are someplace where you are wearing one hat and all of a sudden you are wearing another. Sometimes you have to be prepared to speak up. We never have the chance to prepare for these moments and yet they happen. Last week was one of those unexpected moments in life. >>MORE>>
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