Month: June 2015

Diversity, Inclusion, and Working Together as a Community

Friday, June 19, 2015
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We focus so much of our work on the planning, fundraising and financial oversight role of the Federation.  In fact, at yesterday’s Board meeting, we approved over $9 Million in allocations from our Annual Campaign and Foundation.  That happened because of the planning, fundraising and financial oversight we do so well. Sometimes, we have to […]

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Is Being a Spy Smart Business?

Friday, June 12, 2015
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What do you think about spying on others?  This week’s parshah contains the famous story of Moses sending the twelve spies into the land of Canaan.  Ten of them return to falsely describe how terrible the land is in order to scare the people from wanting to travel there.  Two, Caleb and Joshua, appropriately and […]

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The Ira and Nanette Gordon Award – The Jewish Community in Emily's Words

Friday, June 5, 2015
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Yesterday, the Federation presented the Ira and Nanette Gordon Award to Emily Richman, the Federation’s Assistant Campaign Director.  The Gordon Award is presented to a professional from the Federation or one of our ten beneficiary agencies who is in the early years of his/her career.  Instead of writing to you this week, I want to […]

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