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JEWISH NEWS Jacksonville
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Ackerman chairs national mission
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Are you a Chaim, Bracha or Tov? At left: Jeanine Rogozinski, Andrea Mail and Risa Herman At right: Lori Palatnik
By Jewish Federation of Jacksonville
Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, recently announced that Scot Ackerman will serve as one of the chairs for this July’s worker-training mission to Israel. Sandy Langer of New Jersey will co-chair this first-ever national mission for campaign volunteers with Ackerman, who has chaired a number of similar missions from Jacksonville. Ackerman is a past campaign chair and president of the Jewish Federation of Jacksonville. Based on the Jacksonville model, JFNA hopes to have this trip kick off the 2015 campaign with a well-educated and highly motivated group of campaign workers. The participants will visit a number of Jewish Agency for Israel and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee programs. There will be in-depth training sessions to help participants develop solicitation skills. Each participant makes a commitment to cover a minimum of 10 solicitations during next year’s campaign. There are over 50 people from many Jewish federations currently signed up for the mission, which runs July 14 – 20. Jacksonville’s contingent will include Federation President Hal Resnick, Campaign Chair Sandy Zimmerman, Jewish Family & Community Services Executive Director Colleen Rodriguez, Elliott Rosenbaum, Ben Marsh, Rabbi Avi
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Photos by L. Tallis
Amy Kaminsky and Emily Rosenbaum
Eunice Zisser, Susan Gendzier and Nancy Zimmerman
By ERIN COHEN
Women’s Division Director
On May 1 the Federation’s Women’s Division gathered for an incredible evening at the 9th Annual Girlfriend Connection and learned the answer to this question. Our featured speaker, Lori Palatnik, founder and director of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, engaged over 160 women in an insightful and entertaining talk titled, Discovering the Real You, Understanding Yourself and Appreciating Others. In her talk,
she divides people into three major personality types (with variations, of course) based on your body and soul. She shares that until we understand ourselves, we cannot begin to understand and appreciate others. When asked why this talk is so popular, Lori said, “I think it’s because it is the foundation of creating all successful relationships. You need to know who you are, what drives you, what you are missing and what you need to work on in order to realize your potential.”
Jackie Goldman and Robin Haber
The event was chaired by Andrea Mail and Jeanine Rogozinski, along with an amazing committee of: Arlene Adelson, Lauren Block, Wendy Efron, Karen Gare, Laurie Gelman, Amy Kaminsky, Judy Lewis, Debra Setzer, Stacie Wilf and Talie Zaifert. A big thank you to our generous event sponsors, including benefactors: Helen DuBow, Risa Herman, Joan Levin, Andrea Mail, Debbie Parker, Jeanine Rogozinski, Ellen Setzer, Stacie Wilf; and patrons: Debbie Banks-Kitay, Anne
Bernstein, Merle Cherry, Henny Fisch, Linda Franzblau, Pat Frisch, Gail Furman, Judy Lewish, Diane Rothstein, Tammy Shumer, Gaye Sager, Marte Wasserman and Sheri Weiss. As we look ahead to the 2014-2015 programming year, please consider getting involved in the Women’s Division. If you are interested in sitting on the Women’s Division steering committee, or being an integral part of one of our event committees, please contact Erin Cohen at 448-5000 x205 or erinc@jewishjacksonville.org.
JCA and Hadera partner in programming By Jewish Community Alliance
Upon return from their Israel trip, the JCA department directors were eager to convey their experiences and the meaning of their trip to JCA members through programming. This was not the end, but rather the beginning of the journey. Through the Discover Israel program series JCA department directors became shlichim (emissaries) for Israel and Israeli culture. Each department director has implemented programs that focus on Israel to help members develop a better understanding of various aspects of Israeli culture. This year the directors were asked to expand on their programs and bring Israel into the JCA on a personal level.
While in Israel JCA department directors visited Hadera, Jacksonville’s Israel Partnership region, and spent a day touring its local community center, meeting staff counterparts and learning about its programs. Using this connection the JCA has kicked off two new projects in conjunction with the Hadera community center with the help of Jill Abel, Jewish Federation of Jacksonville’s Israel Partnership director. The JCA after-school program initiated a pen pal program, writing letters to school-age children participating in a similar program in the Hadera community center. “We have 11 participating students right now. They wrote
See JCA, p. 4