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Edward H. KaplanAnn P. KamanJerome B. MakowskyMorton L. MandelLester PollackDaniel Rose

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deariendsI have jst retrned rom Miami ater participating in or 2008 JCCs o NorthAmerica Biennial. Those o yo who were there know that it was a week oinspiration, learning and n. We enjoyed otstanding plenary speakers, wonderlseminar sessions, and the hospitality o a great city. I again want to thank orBiennial Chair Noreen Gordon Sablotsky or her extraordinary eorts, whichreslted in a sccessl convention.

The Biennial reects the strength and breadth o the JCC Movement. Both lay andsta leaders were able to exchange ideas and discss opportnities to improvetheir JCCs and camps. We were also able to talk abot ways to bild pon orsccessl continental programs sch as An Ethical Start and the JCC MaccabiGames and JCC Maccabi ArtsFest. The Benchmarking Project at the MandelCenter or Excellence in Leadership and Management is contining to have apositive impact on the feld, and we are confdent that more JCCs will participateas we move orward. At the Mandel Center or Jewish Edcation, we contine totrn ot great new programs sch as The Goodman Family Institte: Yisrael Sheli

(My Israel): A Teen Program o Israel Edcation and Experience or JCC ResidentCamps, and or new adlt edcation initiative, Jorneys, which was highlightedat the Biennial.

We have the power as a movement to make a dierence when we learn rom eachother and take advantage o the many services oered by JCC Association. Asyor chair, working with or otstanding sta, I have been determined to makecertain that membership in this organization makes a meaningl dierence to thefeld and to those who are enrolled in or JCC programs. The week at the Biennialprovided indisptable evidence that we are making real progress and that ortre together is very bright. Lets make certain that when we gather in Atlanta in2010, we have many new ideas to share, and that those o yo who benefted romthis Biennial will bring along a riend to share the experience. Or 2010 continentalchair, Marvin Geland, and or Atlanta hosts, Lisa Brill and Lara Dinerman,promise that Atlanta will bild on the antastic Miami experience!

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contents2 A Blast in Miami

4 Amazing Eperiencesin Atlanta

8 Creating a Mosaicin Silicon Valley

10 Finding a Jewish Heartin an American Holiday

11 JCC Day CampSPECIAL SECTION

15 Everyone Has a Seatat This Table

16 Welcome Home to Israel

18 Its a Small World

20 JCC Happenings

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The compliments streamed in during

the weeks right ater our JCCs o North

America Biennial in Miami, and the

consensus o opinion was that this was

the best Biennial ever. Dynamic and provocative

keynote speakers, a redesigned schedule that

allowed more time or participants to connectwith each other and explore Miami,

relevant and inormation-packed

seminarsall let delegates eeling

that theyd had a great learning

and networking experience. One o

our goals was to provide JCCs with

concrete take-home ideas. All o the

session handouts are availableto JCC board members on our

password-protected website

http://resources.jcca.org/ .

For the rst time, JWB Jewish

Chaplains Council scheduled

its meeting to coincide with

the Biennial, so the halls othe InterContinental were

lled with men and women

in uniorm. In addition to

reminding delegates o the long

and valued relationship between

the JCC Movement and Jewish

military personnel, the presence

o chaplains and military layleaders gave deeper meaning to

the award presentations to Rabbi

Philip Silverstein and Major

General Ronald D. Silverman,

Have a Blast in

BiennialDelegates

and to the recognition o the JCCs o Chicago project, which reached out to

recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Base. The Frank L. Weil Award was presented

to ormer JCC Association Chair Edward H. Kaplan, and the Florence G. He

Proessional Award went to JCC proessionals Avrum Cohen and Solomon

Greeneld, which underlined the critical importance o JCC volunteers and sin successul JCCs. The Morton L. Mandel Jewish Educational Leadership Aw

was graciously accepted by The AVI CHAI Foundation, which has done so m

to enrich JCC camps Judaically. .

Delegates rom around the world attended the Biennial through the World

Conederation o JCCs, giving an international favor to the events and joini

in as we commemorated Yom HaZikaron and celebrated Israels sixtiethanniversary. And our green eorts were a great start to a movement-wideinitiative. Delegates recycled their soda cans and waste paper, and many turn

in their binders and lanyards at the end o the meeting or us to reuse in the

uture. It gave real impetus to our commitment to bal taschit, the injunction

avoid waste and needless destruction.

I you were unable to join the more than 600 JCC leaders in Miami, you can

capture some o the excitement by watching video highlights on our website

jcca.org/biennial. See you in Atlanta in 2010!

On behalf of

the Baltimore

contingent,

we want

to thank

you for a great four

days. To a person,

our board members

couldnt have been

more complimentary.

Our delegation is

already sharing withtheir peers that they

cant afford to miss going

to Atlanta in two years.

Buddy Sapolsky,executive director,

JCC of Greater Baltimore

Thank you for allowing us to be a part of

this extremely well run, well attended and

professional event. We were very impressed

and I believe your attendees felt the same.

Richard Ekstrom, Retention Management

Great program, and looking forward to A

William Grossman, board of directors,

Dave & Mary Alper JCC, Miami, FL


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CUSTOMER SERVICE IS COREto or Jewish mission in bildingcommnity and creating incredibleJewish jorneys, says MichaelD. Wise, CEO/exective directoro the Marcs JCC o Atlanta.The vale o Jewish welcomingis deeply rooted in or history,beginning with Abrahams

welcoming tent.In Jewish tradition, Abraham and Sarahs tent was open

on all our sides. Strangers were immediately embraced

as riends, cared or both physically and spiritually, and

treated as honored members o the amily.

According to Wise, the MJCCA should be the modern-day

equivalent o Abrahams tentan open, all-inclusive, warm

and welcoming Jewish home, where every member o the

community, regardless o ailiation or level o engagement,

is welcomed and eels an immediate sense o belonging.

The Marcus JCC was aced with a unique set o challenges,

however, which included a rapidly growing Jewish

community1

known to have a high rate o intermarriage,

a low rate o ailiation, a large base o newcomers, and

growing pockets o Jewish communities in outlying areas.

Innovative approaches were needed i the MJCCA intended

to grow its membership base and keep its current members2

happy and engaged.

A CuLTuRE CHANGETo meet its challenges, the MJCCA chose to make a radi

culture change that began with the adoption o one o

the worlds most successul models o customer service,

the Disney Approach to Quality Service. Thousands

o the worlds most successul companies, includingDelta Air Lines, IBM, Target, and Sony Electronics, have

taken advantage o the business philosophies behind the

happiest place on earth.

To implement this agency-wide culture change, Jared

Powers, a senior member o the MJCCA managementteam, traveled to the Disney Institute in Orlando, Florid

and completed a comprehensive three-and-a-hal-day

customer service training program. My experience at thDisney Institute is one I w ill not soon orget, said Powe

The Disney approach to quality service is an outstandi

business model. Although I came away with an impressi

amount o inormation, what really struck me is their

attention to even the most minute detail.

Powers met with senior management upon his return, a

they began to implement the Disney model by dividing

it into our critical categories: Training, Bumping the

Lamp, Policies and Procedures, and Setting. A sta-driv

committee was created to oversee each.

CREATING AMAZING

EXPERIENCESMarcus JCC o Atlanta sets the highest standards or customer service.

by Pamela A. Morton

1. According to the 2006 Jewish Federation Centennial Stdy o GreatAtlanta, Atlanta went rom the 17th (77,000 Jews) to the 11th (120,000 Jlargest Jewish poplation in the united States in jst ten years.

2. 17,000+, with 90% Jewish

THE DISNEY APPROACH

TO qUALITY SERVICE ISAN OUTSTANDINGBUSINESS MODEL.


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TRAININGWise, Powers, and the members o the Customer Service

Committee knew that the ultimate success o the new plan

depended largely on a total sta buy-in. They immediatelyset about creating a comprehensive training program or

sta, detailing the ideology behind the new Disney model.

Within three months, all employees had successully

completed a two-hour course. Additional training was

also implemented or new employees, requiring them to

attend a new hire orientation week that includes working or

spending time in every department rom support services

to security in order to gain a better understanding o howthe agency works.

One o the most exciting new initiatives to come out o the

training program was the creation o a sta proessional

development program eaturing year-round continuing

education classes. Whether ull- or part-time, salaried orhourly, all employees must earn at least ive continuing

education credits annually. (Credits equal the number o

class hours taken, i.e: a two-hour class equals two credits.)

The majority o classes are one- to one-and-a-hal hours

long, are always oered during business hours, and taken

on company time. Classes are taught by business/industry

proessionals and sta who have volunteered their time and

expertise. There are currently 27 courses oered, with manymore planned.

Oerings encompass everything rom personal growth

to proessional development. A sampling o current

courses includes: computer sotware training ( Excel,

MS Publisher, MS Outlook, Mail Merge); Jewish learning

(Everything JewishPurim to Pesach); customer service(Guest Service Recovery, Responding Positively to Your

Customer); management training (Effective Supervision,Team Building); inancial (Understanding the Budget

Process); programming (How to Plan a Successful Program or

Event); agency culture (The History of the MJCCA) and skill

enhancement (Be a Better Business Writer).

According to Terry Spector, a member o the Sta

Proessional Development Committee as well as the MJCCAshuman resources manager, The day we posted the classes on

our intranet, we were inundated with completed registration

orms. Many o our classes lled on that rst day, and we had

to create wait lists. What was even more surprising was that

the majority o those registering or their mandatory classessigned up or more than the required ve hours. That told us

that we were denitely on the right track.

BuMPING THE LAMPAccording to the Disney Institute, the easiest way to exceed

customer expectations is through what they call bumping

the lamp, another way o saying raising the bar: its thatextra special something that makes the customer say, ah!

MJCCA member Jacob Greenblat and his 10-year-old daughter,

Hannah, became rsthand recipients o bumping the lamp

when they showed up at the MJCCA at 4:40a.m. on a rosty

January morning to be rst in line on camp registration day.Kenny Silverboard, MJCCA membership director at the time

(Silverboard is now the director o the JCC Maccabi Games),

was so impressed by the determination o this ather to

ensure his daughters entry into drama camp (typically

one o the rst to ll), that he immediately upgraded the

Greenblats membership. We were totally surprised, said

Greenblat. Hannah and I enjoyed all o the special attention

we received rom the JCC sta.

POLICIES & PROCEDuRESConsistent messaging is key to oering the ultimate

customer experience. Today, all ront desk sta are

instructed to answer their phones with a warm tone andthe added personalization o their names. External e-mail

correspondence concludes with a proessional signature,

and sta who will be out o the oice or more than 24

hours are instructed to leave voice-mail messages that oer

alternative personnel assistance.

SETTING THE STAGENothing is more important to exceeding customer

expectations than setting the stage. To create a sense o

identity and continuity, the JCC created sta name tagsthat included the name and birthplace o each employee.

At irst, many o the sta were puzzled as to the addition o

their birthplace. The reason soon became clear as members

and guests could be heard asking questions like, Are you

rom San Jose? I lived in San Jose or many years. Do you

know..? The inclusion o the birthplaces turned out to

be a key point o engagement with members, sparking

conversation where there might not have been any beore.

The name tags also included what the Disney Institute reers

to as a service theme or statement. Not to be conused with

the JCC Association message You Belong Here, a service

theme is an internal statement inorming customers and

employees o the service your company intends to deliver.

During initial meetings with the new Customer ServiceCommittee, a Marcus JCC service theme was discussed and

adopted: Creating Amazing Experiences.

While the MJCCA is already aesthetically pleasing,

customer-riendly elements such as the new Sheletron

electronic signage totems and a membership andcustomer service oice have been added to the MJCCAs

lobby. Additionally, the community service department

recently launched a new program, Center Corps, to enlist

volunteers to act as JCC g reeters. Working in teams otwo, Center Corps Greeters will wear MJCCA sta shirts,

be schooled in all things MJCCA, distribute program and

membership inormation as needed, escort members to

their destinations, and be trained in CPR/irst-aid.

IS IT WORKING?A week ater we initiated the new customer serv ice plan,we began our participation in the 2007 JCC Excellence: A

Benchmarking Study. We will denitely have concrete met

data with which to gauge our overall success ater participa

in the study next year, said Wise.

Until then, the changes at the MJCCA are clearly workingtheir magic. Phone calls are returned promptly. Smiles

and greetings are the order o the day, every day. People ar

gathering, talking, enjoying each o thers company on MJC

Main Street, and customers are commenting on the riend

atmosphere and the attentive service they are receiving. I

think that the customer service initiative is long overdue.

Both the sta and the members that I have spoken with ha

commented on the many positive changes aroun d the JCCsaid Dee Goodman, MJCCA development manager.

To Wise and his MJCCA sta, the mitzvah o hachnass

orchim welcoming guests have become words to live

and work by.

Pamela Morton is the communications and marketingmanager at MJCCA.

A MARCUS JCC SERVICETHEME WAS DISCUSSED

AND ADOPTED:CREATING AMAZING

ExPERIENCES.

SMILES AND GREETINGS ARTHE ORDER OF THE DAY,EVERY DAY.


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Can reading a book ignite the spark o Jewish lie in

a diverse community? The Addison Penzak JCC o

Silicon Valley in Los Gatos, Caliornia, has shown

that it can. Beore the high-tech boom o the 1990s, the JCC

had struggled in a rundown ormer school building that

ew valley residents visited. Ater the boom, a beautiul new

acility rose in its place. But the new JCC aced a challenge:

What role should it play in Silicon Valleys increasinglydiverse Jewish community, and how could it have a

signiicant impact on a limited budget?

There arent exact numbers, but Ive heard only eight

percent o Jews here are ailiated with any Jewish

organization. Thats ar below the national average, said

Rabbi Joshua Fenton, head o APJCCs Center or Jewish

Lie and Learning, which opened in mid-2007 with unding

rom the Koret Foundation.

As Silicon Valley residents o all aiths locked to join the

JCCs new itness center, supporters and sta worried that

the ocus on exercise might overwhelm the buildings role as

a center or Jewish lie. And the question o how to reach the

areas highly mobile, largely unailiated Jewish population

was a concern as well. Fenton decided to begin with the One

Community One Book initiative, which he based on the

One People One Book program developed in Los Angeles.The program encouraged everyone connected to the Silicon

Valley Jewish community to read Milton Steinbergs novel

As a Driven Leaf. The novels theme o a man torn between

his own culture and the larger society struck a chord with

Silicon Valleys diverse residents.

Fenton had no unding to market the program, but he partly

solved this problem by inviting local synagogues and schools

to join the initiative as co-sponsors. Those organizations

then encouraged their members to participate. Rabbis rom

Silicon Valleys our major synagogues agreed to do a series

o lectures at the JCC over several months, discussing topics

related to the book such as Tradition and Modernity and

Faith and Doubt.

The APJCC also developed a guerilla marketing campaign

or One Community One Book. APJCC sta took photos

o people o all ages and backgrounds reading Steinbergs

historical novel, and posted the photos outside local Jewishcommunity organizations with the tagline Have You Read

the Book? The photos created a buzz, a nd later, when

the APJCC sent out an e-mail blast to several thousand

community residents mentioning the One Community One

Book program, As a Driven Leafsold out on Amazon.com

within a ew hours.

Local rabbis elt excited by the programs success and by

the experience o working together and using the JCC

as a connection poin t. Ultimately, it strengthens the

community, said Rabbi Joshua Berkenwald o San Joses

Congregation Sinai. I like what Rabbi Fenton has done so

ar in terms o making the JCC a orum or the entire

community to come together.

The JCC has ill ed a void, commented Rabbi Aaron

Schonbrun o Congregation Beth David in Saratoga, another

Silicon Valley locale. Because theyre non-denominational,

[the JCC] has a broader opportunity to work with all

segments o the community and theyre beginning to serve

as a conduit to other Jewish organizations, which strengthens

the community.

The JCC built on the success o the community-wide

collaboration with its Community Night o Learning inFebruary, which brought over two hundred people to the

JCC to hear 20 local rabbis and other educators teach on the

theme o Eretz Yisrael: Land, People and Soul.

Most o our programs thus ar have been primarily made

up o people rom the Jewish community, Fenton explained,

but increasingly were seeing interest rom the non -Jewish

community as well. Silicon Valley is unique in its ethnic

makeup. Our population is 30 percent Asian, and we have

a large Indian community. So when people say I want to

see what a rabbi looks like, its because they actually have

encountered Judaism beore.

The multicultural nature o Silicon Valleys Jewish

community aects the types o Jewish programming that

have been successul at the APJCC. For example, Fenton s

We have many interaith amilies where the non-Jewish

spouse is Chinese and the amily is raising the children w

a strong commitment to their Chinese heritage. Because that, people want to show their children theres somethin

more to the Jewish side o their background, beyond light

candles on Hanukkah, he said.

One o the APJCCs most popular oerings thus ar has b

its Hebrew crash course, designed to give par ticipants the

ability to sound out Hebrew words and ollow along in a

synagogue service in just ive lessons. Every session that h

been oered has illed to capacity. The APJCC promoted

program with a large photo o a young man saying It too

me ive years to learn Hebrew. It took my wie just ive da

Next on Fentons agenda is a discussion group or non-Je

parents who are married to Jews and want to raise their

children with some level o Jewish identity.

APJCC executives and board members are pleased w ith th

success o the Center or Jewish Lie and Learning thus a

It has been recognized by area rabbis and educators as a

dynamic orce or Jews rom all backgroundsEven thou

they may have many dierent perspectives [they can com

together at the JCC] in an atmosphere where that is okay

said APJCC CEO Hal Bordy.

I want us every day to become more and more relevant

to the Jewish community, and to the greater Silicon Valley

community, Fenton said. We want to be the place whereyou send your children to preschool o r ater-school

enrichment classes, you go or parenting help, you work o

you meet riends or a meal, you come in the evening or

lecture series or a ilm thats interesting to you Theres

much we can do rom here. We want to embody the idea

being a light unto the nations.

Jenny Green is the marketing communications director aAddison Penzak JCC Silicon Valley.

Creating aMosaicin Silicon Valley by Jenny Geen

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On a very rainy Monday in January, nearly 250 people

rom across the South Peninsula o the San Francisco

Bay came together to participate in a range o

community service projects as part o the irst Albert L. Schultz

JCC Mitzvah Day to honor the lie and legacy o Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr.

Mitzvah reers to our obligations as Jews to live lives based

on compassion and justice. But how do we ind time to do

that in our busy lives? The national movement or a day o

community service in memory o the lie and work o Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. provided both the inspiration and the

opportunity or the JCC to take a leadership role. Because

many businesses are closed on MLK Day, it allowed people to

step up and use the time as a day on instead o a day o.

What we needed to take this event o the drawing

board and into reality were three key elements:

other community organizations to join us

service projects that could be easily executed

in a ew hours

participants who wanted to give their time

And we needed a visionary to pull it all together. That

visionary was our new Adult Programs Manager Jane-

Rachel Schonbrun, who became the driving orce behind

the ALSJCC Mitzvah Day. Schonbrun and her team irst

reached out to other Jewish organizations rom synagogues to

schools to service agencies, and they quickly got on board. Our

co-sponsors were BBYO, Congregation Beth Am, Congregation

Emek Beracha, Congregation Etz Chayim, Congregation Kol

Emeth, The Friendship Circle, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day

School, Hillel at Stanord, Jewish Family & Childrens Services,

Keddem Congregation, Kehillah Jewish High School, and

Temple Beth Jacob. All agreed to promote this event to their

members, students, and constituents.

Lining up interesting projects was the next task. We wanted to

oer a range o times, interests, and skill sets so that projects

would be interesting and age-appropriate or amilies with

young children as well teens, adults, and seniors. The teamreached out to local community agencies, and soon had

projects that included meal preparation at soup kitchens and

homeless shelters; environmental clean-up activities at local

beaches, and nature preserves; visiting residents o a senior

center; creating cards and git packages or American and Israeli

soldiers on active duty abroad; constructing bookcases or a

needy school; and building aordable housing. Additionally,

many participants willingly contributed to planting a Palo Alto

Jewish Community Tree Garden in Israel. A $5 per person

donation to the Jewish National Fund was suggested.

Now, it was time or marketing! The marketing team

developed an attractive brochure and poster promoting

the various projects and details or participation and

distributed it to all o the participating co-sponsors. A

press release announcing the event resulted in pre and post

coverage by both the Jewish and mainstream press. The

word went out at synagogue services, was sent home with

students, and was inserted into agency newsletters.

We designed an online registration orm to ensure that

every project had appropriate staing. Participants could

sign up alone or with amily and riends. When projects

illed up, registration or that event closed. Participants

also indicated their T-shirt sizes so that everyone could get

a colorul T-shirt when they arrived to sign in on January

21. Thanks to publicity and active word o mouth, everyproject illed up!

Then came Mitzvah Day.and the rains! Despite

downpours throughout the day, people showed

upexcited to participate even i it meant a day

o working in the mud!

Most peoples projects took place indoors, luckily.

For example, in one classroom at Kehillah Jewish High

School, amilies worked together on making cards and

gits or hospitalized children. In another room, participants

o all ages wrote thoughtul letters to Jewish and American

soldiers. One small girl wrote on her card: Dear SoldierMy

name is Natalie. I am eight years old. Thank you so much or

protecting me and my riends. We love you.

One o the parents working on gits or hospitalized kids told a

reporter that his amily signed up or Mitzvah Day because its

important to us to look or opportunities to promote people

getting along with each other, no matter their background or

skin color.

A parent o preschoolers commented, I know it seems young,

but we eel like its good to start early, that its not about doing

things or ourselves, but about doing things or other people.

Schonbrun summed the day up best: Mitzvah Day was a

unique opportunity or unity and cooperation that brought

people together or a shared mission to promote Dr. Kings

legacy o tolerance, peace, and equality while improving

conditions in our own community. Best o all, it was a un and

inspirational day that let participants eeling accomplished

and energizedand ready to come back next year!

Mimi Sells is the director of marketing and communications atthe Albert L. Schultz JCC.

Finding the Jewish Heat

in an Ameican Holidayby Mimi Sells

O Days o Caing and Shaing gants

enich camp daysWith the aid o The Coca-Cola Company or

the past several years, we were able to help

or resident and day camps make commnity

service an integral part o the camp crriclm

and view it throgh a Jewish lens. We are

contining to provide grants to camps with the

spport o another generos donor, and this smmer we are helping 45 camps

introdce their campers to the satisaction o helping others, and to a deeper

nderstanding o the word mitzvah. The Mandel Center or

Jewish Edcation prepared a special nit on shalom, peace,

with art, msic, and drama activities, to provide a richer

Jewish context or or camps JCC Association/Legacy

Heritage Fnd Days o Caring and Sharing projects. Happily,

or donor has nded Days o Caring and Sharing or three

years, so we will be a ble to contine nding commnity-

service projects, which add so mch to the camp day. For

more inormation, contact:

Charlene Wendell, consltant on camping services,

(212) 786-5126, [email protected] .

We povide intensive taining

o day camp diectosThis past year we conclded or frst Lekh Lakhem or Day

Camp Directors Senior Seminar sponsored by the Mandel

Center or Jewish Edcation. Lekh Lakhem is a two-year,

intensive, Jewish edcational leadership program with

fve seminars in North America and one extended seminar

in Israel. In the interim between the seminars, the Lekh

Lakhem Fellows stdied every other week with or aclty/

mentors, who also visited the camps to watch the directors

in action dring the two smmers o the program. O the 18

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At Spotlight Youth Musical Theatre

Camp at the Jewish Community

Center o Louisville campers step into

a world o imagination and get caght

p in the magic o CenterStages yoth

theater program. The camp clminates

in a msical theater perormance with

each child playing a starring role. The

campers work so hard or two weeks

in order to perorm or all the other

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lead instrctor.

Milton & Betty Katz JCC o Atlantic

County Camp by the Sea is a seaside

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three smmers nder the direction

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perorming and visal arts camp has

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every smmer. This grop o talented

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with proessional dancers, vocal

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throghot the

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Ater a fteen year hiats, one o

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2008. In the frst session, which r

rom Jne 16 Jly 11, campers will

perorm the Hooray or Hollywood

review o poplar songs and scenes

rom classic Hollywood movies sch

as Singing in the Rain and Hello

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campers will ocs on bilding their

stage skills in dramatic arts, msica

theater, and dance, which will enha

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p their confdence or their fnal

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felds o make-p, improvisation,

dance, voice, stage combat, and oth

disciplines.

In the second session, rom Jly 14

- Agst 8, campers will Give Their

Regards to Broadway, while workin

on Broadway nmbers that are posi

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and dance. Throghot both session

campers will also enjoy many o the

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games, art and more.

Film, ashion, and n

this smme at the 92ndSteet Y in New Yo

Two recent additions to the 92nd

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Apple. At the 92nd Street Y Fashion

Design Camp with F.I.T., yong Project

Runway ans spend a week learning

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machine sewing as they explore how

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design. under the gidance o an FIT

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proessor, campers sketch and sew

with an eye toward developing both

ashion sense and a creative air.

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Agst 48 at the 92nd Street Ys

main acility in Manhattan.

Back or a second season is the two-

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skills and then create their own short

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o on the pathway interviews called

The Lnchtime Monologes, and

American Idol: Stranded Edition, in

which a singer lost in a orest is saved

by a song. Children work with mini-DV

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they get to show their flms at a special

screening (parents welcome) at the

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(transportation provided). The 92nd

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science, and the arts, which spplement

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Cooing and clowning

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At Marcus JCC o Atlanta Camp

Isidore Alterman, campers who register

or Clowning Around will be instrcted

by Babycakes, the proessional clown,

in magic, costmes, clown ace design,

jggling, balloon animal making and

more! Dring the weekly Shabbatcelebration, Clowning Arond campers

get a chance to perorm their shtick

or the entire camp!

Campers who register or Cooking

Capers jst may be the next Iron Che

or Top Che. Creating edible delights

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healthy recipes, campers prepare, cook,

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the Educational Alliance has been serving Lower EastSide youth and teens since its ounding in 1889,introducing innovative youth programs in the arts,

in counseling, in addiction services, and in education.In those early years, the youngsters who lockedto The Educational Alliances classes and programswere the children o Jewish immigrants rom EasternEurope, eager to learn the language and customs otheir new home. As the years passed, The EducationalAlliance continued to serve the children o immigrants,but most o them came rom Latin America and Asia.Many o their needs were the same, and some weredierent. Recently, ater a careul planning process,The Educational Alliance began seeking out like-mindedorganizations that could help epand their oerings orneighborhood youth. So the partnership between theEducational Alliance and the eually-venerable Boys& Girls Clubs o America (BGCA) was born. The BGCA,through its mission statement, deines its purpose as to

enable all young people, especially those who need usmost, to reach their ull potential as productive, caring,responsible citizens. This is the same business TheEducational Alliance has been in since its inception.

With seven sites serving youth through ater-schoolprograms, The Educational Alliance was immediatelyready to put to use the additional resources BGCAbrought to the table. As a charter member (whichmeans an organization that houses a BGCA club), TheEducational Alliance was eligible or unds, and the

BGCA grants it received were more than enough to gtwo new sites running, raising the number o Allianceyouth sites to nine. The Alliance now serves nearly ththousand boys and girls through BGCA Charter ClubsThose signature programs range rom homework heland tutoring to inancial education.

In addition to epanding The Educational Alliances slo oerings at its youth sites, the partnership with BGhas sharpened the skills o The Alliances sta. Throuconerences and curriculum training sponsored byBGCA, Alliance sta has the opportunity to learn abothe latest trends in working with youth, as well asto interact with peers rom around the country. Thisactive listening and learning keeps The Alliance youthprograms vital. The BGCA oers a wealth o trainingincluding both program speciic and general, to makesure the sites are up to the standards and maintain tuality eperience epected o a Boys & Girls Club. In

addition, the BGCA maintains a robust intranet site oprogram administrators, which has reports, positionpapers, tool kits or assessment, and much more. BGsta are also easily available by phone as needed toanswer uestions and give guidance.

There are numerous eamples o how the partnershihas paid o or program attendees. In the all, FrancFeliz and Samantha Grant rom the Edgies Teen Cenin The Alliances lagship building on East Broadwaywon two o only ten $2,000 scholarships awarded

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Welcome Hometo Isaelby Stephanie Golden

Welcome home.

When you are 6,000 miles away rom home in a place you have

never been beore, welcome home is not what you expect. But

ater youve heard it over and over rom strangers on the street,

at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, and everywhere in between, the

words seem right.

For me, going on Taglit-Birthright Israel with J CC Maccabi

Israel was taking advantage o a ree trip to visit the land where

it all beganwhere the Jews have aced hardships (and still do)

and where they ight to maintain a Jewish state, a place that

all Jews in the world can eel at home every single day. I didnt

expect to come home changed. To be completely honest, I hadno idea what to expect.

I did know, though, that I wanted to have un, and riends who

had taken the trip told me I would have a great time. I had no idea

that I would return eeling closer to 40 people Id met ten days

earlier than to others I have known or years. I never expected to

meet eight Israeli soldiers who joined us or the second hal o

our trip and discover they are just like me. More than anything, I

never anticipated eeling the connection with Israel that I eel upon

returning home.

Hiking up Masada at 5 a.m. to watch the sun rise rom behind

the mountains was amazing, one o the most beautiul sights

I have ever seen in my lie. Floating eortlessly in the Dead

Sea was easily one o the strangest experiences Ive ever had; I

giggled uncontrollably because it elt so peculiar. Everyone was

enjoying slapping mud all over themselves and posing or unny

pictures. Looking out at the mountains in the Golan Heights was

breathtaking, although it was reezing and my eet were numb

within 20 minutes. I look back on these moments and realize that

they were irsts or me, and to experience them with my group

added so much to the intensity I elt.

Not all o our stops during our ten-day tour o Israel were to

admire the landscape. We visited the Old City o Jerusalem

nationwide by Money Matters: Make It Count, aBGCA inancial literacy program sponsored bythe Charles Schwab Foundation. The Alliancehas incorporated programs like Power Hour

and Project Learn, which not only reinorce theimportance o homework and study outside oschool, but eplore un ways to make the mosto that study time. And, oerings like SmartGirls and Passport to Manhoodaddress lieskills and health and wellness. Says a programattendee, These ater-school programs keepme o the street and thinking about things thatare important.

To be a charter member, The EducationalAlliance pays BGCA $11,000 in annual dues andalso iles regular reports, including an annualImpact Assessment Report. This 29-page booko checklists assesses every point o contacta client will have with the clubs, rom whathappens when the client walks in the door, torelationships with sta, uality o programs, andeven the environment o the building and spacein which the programs are housed.

Ultimately, the partnership with Boys &Girls Clubs o America demonstrated TheEducational Alliances commitment to blendingpublic and private dollars to beneit theorganizations neighbors. And, it orwards The

Alliances interpretation o its role as a Jewishorganization: to be open to all opportunities toadvance its eorts in caring or the communityo which it is a part.Its an obvious partnership, says RobinBernstein, president and CEO o TheEducational Alliance. I dont know why everyJCC doesnt do it.

David Billotti works in the communicationsdepartment at The Educational Alliance.

twicethe irst and last days o our trip. I approached the

Western Wall or the irst time, a little nervous, olded piece

o paper in hand, trying to absorb the moment. Touching

the cool, smooth stones and placing my prayer in a crack was

unorgettable. Im not a particularly religious person; I never

have been and dont expect to become one. I know that the

Kotel is a place o worship, but it is also a place where one can

make her time her own, and in my moment in ront o the

Wall, I elt a strong connection to my Jewish heritage. I elt

proud to stand there.

We slept in Bedouin tents our second night, which was New

Years Eve. I was a little apprehensive, especially ater seeing

that 40 o us would sleep all in one tent. Although it was

a little chilly and deinitely out o many peoples comort

zones, it turned out to be wonderul. A ew people made a

mock ball drop, and everyone danced around a ire and sang

songs and hugged riends and strangers alike with happy

wishes or the new year.

Our group was also able to meet dierent people with stories

to tell: a Bedouin woman who went against her communitysstandards, never married, and started a successul skincare line;

a man who let Detroit 13 years ago looking or something to

deine his lie, ound Tsat and Kaballah and never came back;

eight Israeli soldiers who shared stories o courage during

their service, as well as personal likes and dislikes, which

helped us realize that they are just like usun-loving, gossip-

ollowing, loudmouthed, talented young people. Meeting

many dierent people rom many areas o the country rom

diverse communities helped open our eyes to the real lives o

the people who live in Israel, not just Jews, but all the diere

people who make up the country.

The soldiers added so much to our experience. In many pla

we werent able to interact with the people. Having young

adults give us a glimpse into their lives in Israel helped us

to understand so much more about the country. They were

so open and honest, no matter how serious or rivolous our

questions were. Many o us werent sure what army service

like, but hearing about the experiences that helped them gro

up and mature was important or us.

On the last night, we talked as a group about our ah ha!

moment. It was hard or me to choose. I elt like the whole t

was my moment. But being in Independence Hall in Tel Aviv

listening to our tour guide who closed with words along the

lines o, This is your home, my riends. We welcome you wi

open arms, and I want you to know that I consider you as m

o a citizen o this country as I do mysel and my children. Y

will always have a home here in Israel. Welcome home.

Then she played Hatikva, and the whole group began to sIt was a moment when I was exactly where I was supposed

be. I was a Jew in Israel, and it was the right place to be; any

other place wouldnt have elt the same.

Leaving Israel was hard. I remember looking over at my

riends and seeing all our aces so gloomy. But I know thats

opportunity to go back hopeully, within a year or so. Mo

than anything, I look orward to hearing welcome home.

Stephanie Golden is a junior at Hofstra University.

For more information aboutJCC Macccabi Israel, go towww.jccmaccabiisrael.org,or contact Adinah East [email protected]

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We all come from different cornof the world, we eat differentkinds of food, we speak differ

languages, we live in different culturesand each one of us is at a slightly diffestage in life. Evan is about to concludehigh school, Adi will begin college in a months, and I, Ofer, will graduate only a year and a half and will then begin mmilitary service in the Israeli army.

Despite these differences, we were able develop a special relationship through thTri-Center Project initiated by the WorldConfederation of JCCs together with theSuffolk Y JCC and the Greater Five TownJCC in New York, the French Hill CommuCenter in Jerusalem, and the Lamroth HJCC/Synagogue in Buenos Aires, and thato a generous grant from UJA FederationNew York that is administrated by the Je

Agency of Israel.

Im writing this sitting in Evans room inBuenos Aires; Adi is here from New YorWe have spent a whole week togetherexperiencing unique programs, and wehave also found time to discuss everytopic imaginable and develop an amazinfriendship.

On Friday, we went to the synagogue atLamroth Hakol. Adi and I felt it was sodifferent from our synagogues back homIn Lamroth Hakol, they sang and playedguitar. But still, the text was the same teWe are the same people with the same rThis special atmosphere made us open uand speak about everythingschool, frielove, disappointment, and all the issues engage youth all over the world.

This encounter in Buenos Aires is parta three-year project that began two yeago. We first met in Long Island, New Ylast summer. We then continued to meback home and prepare for the next vi

in Buenos Aires, and in a few months aus, together with our parents, will spenweek in Jerusalem.

We want to thank everyone involved the project, and were certain that thnot the end

Oer Polivoda, JersalemAdi Ramer, New YorkEvan Rsak, Benos Aires

A three-county project initiated by the World Conederation oJewish Community Centers and the Suolk Y JCC in New York,with the help o UJA Federation o New York in partnership withJAFI (Jewish Agency or Israel), is bringing together Jewishteenagers rom Israel, Argentina, and the U.S. to orm personaland communal relationships.

The Suolk Y JCC in Commack and the JCC o the GreaterFive Towns in Cedarhurst, both on Long Island, already had anongoing relationship with the French Hill matnas in Jerusalemthrough UJAs Partnership 2000, so it wasnt such a stretch toinclude a JCC rom another country. Nine years ago, we werethe Partnership 2000 pilot project or New York, says JoelBlock, eecutive director o the Suolk Y JCC. We once againplayed the same role or Tri-Center, as the project is called.Twenty-seven teens participated in the project, nine rom eachcommunity, with three adult sta members. The teens havevisited New York and Buenos Aries, and plan to go to Israel inJuly with their parents.

Eecutive Director Marcelo Taussik o Lamroth Hakol JCC/

Synagogue in Buenos Aries, Argentina eplained that when hisJCC was invited by the WCJCC three years ago to join withLong Island and Israel, it helped that we have a lot o peoplewho speak English, so we could communicate on many levels,rom the board to the children. Taussik sees the projectsoverall goal as creating a new group o young Jewish globalleaders who can think o Jews as one people rather than smallseparate groups in the Diaspora, unconnected to one another.These nine, as o 2009, will take over in our community asyoung leaders. We believe these are our uture leaders.

Israeli teens dont know anything about Diaspora Jews, saysYochanan Bechler, the director o French Hill, and he believesthat visiting outside communities makes them better Jews andbetter Israelis. Most o them have too much to do or have toomany priorities, but one o them is not the Diaspora. Whenthe young Israelis have the opportunity to see establishedJewish communities outside o Israel and to see how Jews liveparticularly anything that has to do with religionit opens theireyes, Bechler says. Secular Israelismost o the populationdont view religious practice as part o their Jewish identity,according to Bechler, and visiting synagogues in Argentina or theU.S. helps them to eel less threatened by Judaism the religion.The ultra-Orthodo they encounter in Israel do not representsomething they want to be attached to, Bechler says. Thats whythis connection is so important.

There are other Tri-Center projects on the way. The SephardicJCC in Brooklyn is being matched with a JCC in Toulouse,France and one in Gilo, Israel. JCCs in Staten Island, London,and Pisgat Zeev are also beginning to work together. Bechlerand Block are developing a joint program with the Islamic Centerin Westbury and an Arab center in Jerusalem. We like thisposition o being leaders or international projects, Block adds.

It is the dream o the World Conederation that every JCC inthe world have at least two ellow JCC partnersone in Israel andone in another Jewish community, says Jerome B. Makowsky,WCJCC president.

Its A Small Wold Ate All:

The Ti-Cente Poject


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JCCSF Photo Exhibition

Shows Common Gond

among JesalemsChilden

JCC o San Fancisco

San Fancisco, CA

In Jersalem, Jewish and Mslimchildren are deeply divided byadlt isses o religion and politics,bt are they really so dierent?Beyond the Wall: Kids withCamerasThe Jersalem Project,a recent photography exhibit at theJewish Commnity Center o SanFrancisco, was born when New Yorkphotojornalist Jason Eskenazi set otto teach photography to Jersalemschildren, and in the process discoveredthe common grond o childhoodamong these disparate neighbors.

Eskenazi spent eight months teaching24 kids12 Israeli, 12 Palestinianbasicphotographic techniqes. Thenhe stood back and watched as the

bdding photographers, ages 8 to12, told the stories o their day-to-day lives in photos. The photographspresented the expected contrastsagirl reading the Koran, Jews prayingat the Western Wallas well assimilarities in how children experiencethe world arond them.

Langage barriers and cltraltensions made a joint workshopimpossible, bt the two grops wereltimately broght together, at leastfgratively, by viewing the otherswork. The children initially expressedhostility towards one another, bt oncethey saw the photographs, they weredrawn into each others worlds. Theywere ascinated to see the lives o theirconterparts, Eskenazi said.

The exhibition, on display romFebrary 1 throgh April 30, 2008,came to the JCCSF throgh alongstanding relationship withthe JCC in Manhattan, where theshow ran last all. A very specialrelationship has developed betweenthese two JCCs, explains Directoro the Egene & Elinor Friend Centeror the Arts Lenore Naxon. Werevery similar: were both in diverse,rban areas and were at the samestage in or organizational lie cycles.Were constantly sharing ideas andresorces; it is a pleasre to work withcolleages there.

New Yo JCC Hosts

Nation O BhtanJCC o Mid-Westcheste

Scasdale, NY

The JCC o Mid-Westchester inScarsdale hosted varios dignitariesrom the small nation o Bhtan inJanary. The visitors were on a act-fnding mission on special-needsedcation in the united States. Theyspent time in the JCCs TowardTomorrow special needs nrseryprogram and visited all classrooms,therapy areas, and the JCCsgymnastics acility. The JCC site wasrecommended by Larie Levine, aNew York State regional trainer orSETRC, Special Edcation Training andResorce Center.

Based on what they learned dringtheir trip, the Bhtanese team intendsto defne a special-needs edcationsystem appropriate or their contryand to begin training sta and teachersaccordingly. Crrently, the primaryproviders o special edcation inBhtan inclde one school or theblind and one school or the hearingimpaired, pls a vocational school oryong adlts that oers training in

local handicrats and msic.

Bhtan is a small contry in theHimalayan Montains between Indiaand Tibet, east o Nepal. until themiddle o the twentieth centry,Bhtan was almost completely isolatedrom the rest o the worldthe onlyway to see it was on oot or horseback.

jcchappeningswhats going on in the north american

jewish commnity center movement

Innovative Mlti-

Sensoy Theapy room

o Special Needs

Childen and AdltsJCC o the Geate Five Towns

Cedahst, NY

Expanding the services oered tochildren and adlts with special needs,the Jewish Commnity Center o theGreater Five Towns in Cedarhrst,New York opened a mlti-sensory,or Snoezelen room to treat thosewith a wide range o cognitive andnerological disorders sch as atism,tramatic brain injries, dementia andAlzheimers disease.

The idea to incorporate the innovativetherapy came rom Exective DirectorRina Shkolnik. I saw a Snoezelen room

in Israel and noticed there was a positiveresponse to mlti-sensory therapy andwanted to know more abot it and howwe cold sccesslly integrate it intoor programs, explained Shkolnik.The room is hosed at the JCCs site atTemple Israel in Lawrence.

Made possible by a special grant romNew York State Senator Dean Skelos,the Snoezelen room is a therapeticmlti-sensory environment that seslighting eects, color, sonds, msic,scents and toch to create a soothingand relaxing atmosphere. Basedpon individal needs, each sensorycomponent can be adjsted to enhancetherapy, learning, and relaxation.Mlti-sensory rooms have been provento enhance awareness and positivebehaviors or those with severe sensoryimpairment or nerological disorders.

Thanks to Senator Skelos, the JCC isable to oer a sae and non-threateningenvironment or people with specialsensory reqirements where they canexperience greater sel-control andachievements that overcome inhibitions,

enhance sel-esteem, and redcetension, conclded Shkolnik.

Yo Go, Gil!St. Lois JCC

St. Lois, MO

The St. Lois Jewish Commnity Centercelebrated the twenty-second annalNational Girls and Women in SportsDay (NGWSD) by hosting a Girls NightOt or more than orty girls romthe St. Lois commnity at the newlyrenovated JCC Marilyn Fox Bilding.First to eighth grade girls had the rno the JCC to participate in sports andftness activities. Form er high schooland college athletes coached soccer,basketball, track, and cheerleading, andthe girls tried their hands in the battingcages, and the sport wall. The night alsoinclded a T-shirt, rereshments andrae prizes rom local sports teams,stores and the JCC.

NGWSD began in 1987 as a day toremember Olympic volleyball player FloHymann or her athletic achievementsand her work to assre eqality orwomens sports. Hyman died o Maranssyndrome in 1986 while competing in avolleyball tornament.

The St. Lois JCC has spportedNGWSD since 2003, and is passionateabot emale athletics and getting girls

involved at a yong age.

Chicago JCC Opens

Sepaate-GendeWoot rooms

Benad Howich Jewish

Commnity Cente

Chicago, IL

How can religios women work ot inJewish environment and still maintaisense o modesty? This past FebrarChicagos Bernard Horwich JewishCommnity Center provided a waywhen they lanched separate-gendeworkot acilities. Keycard-only acceand window blinds give the areas privThe JCCs o Chicago designed thesespaces to help Orthodox Jews maintthe level o modesty with which theyare comortable, and a large spike inmembership was the reslt. By theend o the two-hor grand openingevent, 55 people had signed p or trmemberships (the nmber has sinceclimbed to 121).

The acilities opened at a time whenthe Orthodox commnity is becominmore conscios o the importance ohealth and ftness, according to EmilyMinkow, regional director, NorthernRegion o Jewish Commnity Center

o Chicago. A 2006 stdy pblished the Jewish Commnity Health Srveo West Rogers Park and PetersonPark ond that 31 percent o adltswere overweight, with an additional 2percent were obese.


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A Petty Gil

Is Lie a MelodySpingfeld JCC

Spingfeld, MA

Golden Girls are strtting their stat the Springfeld Jewish CommnityCenter. This year the Springfeld JCCis celebrating its sixteenth year assponsor and organizer o the Ms.Senior Massachsetts Golden GirlPageant. Any woman 60 years o ageor older and living in Massachsettscan enter the competition. Thepageants main prpose is to givewomen who have entered the age oelegance a showcase or their talents,lie experiences, intelligence, andinner and oter beaty. The winner othe Ms. Senior Massachsetts GoldenGirls Pageant goes on to compete on

the national level or the title o Ms.Senior America.

In the months leading p to thepageant, contestants meet severaltimes to get to know each other andto rehearse with Frank P. Jackson,the pageants msical director andaccompanist. Each contestant is givenadvice on hair color, hair style, andstage make-p by a local beatician, andcoached on modeling and interviewingskills by two ormer contestants. Themayor o Holyoke, where the pageant isheld, hosts a brnch or the contestantsat a city msem.

Althogh the pageant is basedon competition, we stress theopportnity to make new riendsand improve ones sel image,says Bobbie Levin, director o thesenior adlt department at theSJCC. The Springfeld JCC invites allcontestants to join the approximatelysixty members in the JCCs CameoClb, and they perorm throghotMassachsetts dring the year. Theyalso write and prodce an annal

cameo perormance at the SJCC.Proceeds spport the reigning qeento go to the next national competition.

The JCC welcomes women rom allbackgronds to the Ms. Senior MAPageant and encorages them to enjoytraditional JCC hospitality.

Potecting Ceation

and Betteing the

Commnity One Tee

at a Time

JCC o Indianapolis

Indianapolis, IN

Smmer soon will be a little cooler and alittle greener or children and amilies atthe Arthr M. Glick JCC in Indianapolis,and the JCC will lfll the Jewishobligation to care or the world. The JCCplanted 26 treesmade possible throgha partnership with Keep IndianapolisBeatil, Inc.arond the JCC sportsfeld and playgronds at a tree-plantingevent in April. Families, those concernedabot the environment, and the generalpblic joined in this celebration. The treeplanting was part o the NeighborWoodsprogram, a partnership between KeepIndianapolis Beatil, Inc. and the Cityo Indianapolis to plant 100,000 treesin Indianapolis over the next ten years.NeighborWoods is made possible in part

by sponsors, inclding onding sponsorsIndianapolis Power & Light Company;Veolia Water, Indianapolis; and romrecent ederal nding secred by u.S.Senator Richard Lgar, u.S. Senator EvanBayh and the late u.S. RepresentativeJlia Carson.

Levite JCC knittes

keep Thei Needles

Clicing o OthesLevite JCC

Bimingham, AL

Thirty-fve knitters meet reglarlyat the Levite Jewish CommnityCenter in Birmingham, Alabama, topractice their crat together and tolet those whose lives are toched bycancer know that their commnity issrronding them with love, warmth,and hope. The Circle o Lie knittersrecently presented 180 pink scarvesand shrgs to the university oAlabama at Birminghams (uABs)Comprehensive Cancer Center inhonor o National Breast CancerMonth or patients in the radiationand chemotherapy otpatient clinics.Erin Shaw Street, director o uABsComprehensive Cancer Center, saidshe was tremendosly gratel or theeorts o the knitters and the LJCCand thanked everyone or starting

what she called a caring revoltion.

read Me a StoyJCCs o Geate Boston

Boston, MA

The Jewish Commnity Centers oGreater Boston (JCCGB) lanched thelargest edcational program in its 50-year history with The PJ Library, aninitiative providing ree Jewish booksand CDs or as many as or thosandyong children within the next year.

Each participating child will receivea monthly git o an age-appropriateJewish book or CD at no cost or all year. Along with the books andmsic, amilies receive parent gidesdesigned to complement and enhancethe PJ experience. Ater the frst year,amilies can re-enroll their children ata signifcantly sbsidized rate.

Boston is among the latest cities to

participate in the program, whichwas started two years ago by theHarold Grinspoon Fondation in WestSpringfeld, Massachsetts, and hasnow expanded to more than fty-fvecommnities across the contry.

Reading stories and listening tomsic together are among themost powerl and nrtring earlychildhood experiences. The PJ Librarywill trn these special momentsinto Jewish moments, said WinnieSandler, a member o the GrinspoonFondations board o trstees.

A team o experts in childrensliteratre, msic and edcation selectsthe PJ Library books and CDs tocommnicate Jewish stories, heritageand vales. This is one othe most exciting andimportant programsin the JCCs history,

said Mark Sokoll, president and CEO othe JCCs o Greater Boston. The PJLibrary makes it possible or a kid toask or a great Jewish book as otenas she wants Goodnight Moon, and orparents to have the tools they need totalk abot the book with their child asthey embark on their Jewish jorneytogether, he said.

A Harold Grinspoon Fondationsrvey ond that beore joiningThe PJ Library, the amilies inthe program owned ive or ewerJewish childrens books, and only23 percent o the parents said theywere very likely to by Jewish booksor CDs. However, 75 percent o theparticipants srveyed said they nowread The PJ Library books to theirchildren once a week or more.

More than $230,000 has already beenraised by the JCCGB to lanch thelocal program. The JCC will be sendingot letters to nearly 60,000 amilies inthe region inviting them to participatein The PJ Library. The annal cost othe books and CDs is being entirelycovered by donations.

We have nding or over threethosand amilies and I am convincethat we will be able to attract additispport, as needed, Sokoll said. Hesaid the JCCs goal is to enroll 11,00children over the next three years,representing more than eighty perco all Jewish amilies with yongchildren in the Greater Boston area.

Docmentay Is the

Highlight o Tenth

Annal Loisville

Jewish Film FestivalJCC o Loisville

Loisville, kY

Capacity adiences at the JCC anda local theater enjoyed the eight

international award-winning flmsscreened at the tenth annal LoisJewish Film Festival sponsored by tJCC. This years estival inclded TBlack Book, Saved by Deportation,What a Wonderful Place, Jellyfish, TFirst Basket, The Tribe and MauvaisFoi. The estival received spport over fty individals and patrons.

The highlight o the estival was thSpeed Art Msem Gala. This evein the Speed Sclptre Garden andtheater eatred hors doevres ana screening o the award-winning The Rape of Europa. The stnningdocmentary depicts the story othet, destrction and miraclossrvival and recovery o Eropesgreat art treasres dring WorldWar II. Prior to the flm, Kim Spenassociate crator at the Speed ArtMsem, discssed the msemproessions ongoing attempts toretrn looted artwork to its rightowners and the Speeds research oits own collection.


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Ol o JewMex!Bolde JCC

Bolde, CO

This is why there are JCCs. Thiswas a perect event, Wayne Seltzersaid as he headed ot the door othe Bolder JCC on a chilly Janarynight ollowing JewMex: The Sights,Sonds and Tastes o Jewish Mexico.Wayne was not headed home,despite having jst enjoyed an artshow, a concert, a meal, a flm, anda panel discssion. He and his wiewere o or a nightcap at Mamacitas,where they kissed the mezzah on thecozy Mexican restarants door on theway in and otand where the idea orJewMex began.

Bolder JCC program director KathrynBernheimer was having dinner withriends when she noticed that aMexican painting on the wall lookedsspiciosly like a yeshiva bocher. Shethoght lie as a Jewish proessionalwas casing her to see everythingthrogh a Jewish lens. Trns ot,owner Carmen Epstein was indeed aJewish Mexican artist.

For JewMex, Carmen pt 35 large,colorl canvases on display at theBolder JCC. The opening nightreception inclded a SephardicMexican mealthe pistachio mole wasfantastico.The overow crowd o 100then settled in or a short concert omelancholy Ladino msic by visitingcantor Robert Michael Esormes,

ollowed by a screening o the one-hordocmentary, Tijuana Jews. Ater theflm, fve local Jews rom Mexico tookthe stage to share their own cross-cltral experiences.

The adience, a mix o BJCC reglarsand frst-timers, let eeling satiated

with ideas, avors and msic.Enlightened by their immersionexperience, they headed home to bed.All except Wayne.

rosh Hodesh:

Its a Gil Thing!JCC o the Noth Shoe

Mablehead, Massachsetts

The JCC o the North Shore invitesgirls in grades 5 and 6 or a copleo hors one night a monthandencorages them to bring someriends. Rosh Hodesh, the frst day othe Hebrew month, is traditionally aholiday or women. Girls get togetherat the JCC on or near the new moonto do rital, to mnch on snacks, tolearn, and to eel comortable, Jewish,and good abot themselves. JocelynSegal, the leader o the grop, said,The girls are ll o deep qestionsabot Jdaism and lie. It is amazinghow mch they want to talk anddiscss. Activities I predict will take

10 mintes take easily 20-25! Theywere eqally engaged in discssingsocietys pressre rom the mediato look a certain way. They critiqedmagazines and had to fnd positiveand negative images. Ater that thegirls began a letter writing campaign,letting companies and magazinesknow what their reactions were to thecontent and pictres inside.

Beach Boys Povide the

Beat o the SolowayJCCs fst Pim Play

Soloway JCC

Ottawa, ON Canada

Prim is a time o topsy trveymasqeraderabbis in carnivalcostmes, the roaring o greggarsover the voices on the bima, and lotso p-trned wine glasses and over-the-top escapades. The Soloway JCCcelebrated Prim mishigas with its frstPrim play, The Megillah According tothe Beach Boys.

What do the Beach Boys, blonde iconso Caliornias srfng cltre, have todo with royal intriges in the Persiancort and Jewish tradition? Theanswer was not immediately apparent,bt as in the Megillat Esther, manysecret identities were revealed.

Beach Boys Prim was directed byGavriella Silverstone, who majored intheater at the university o Ottawaand is now fnishing her degree indrama therapy. Silverstone captredthe essence o Prim, Or castmembers were rom 18-80 yearsold, and or ocs was on n andplaylness. No matter what age yoare, yo shold still have n andsilliness in yor lie.

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ANDY SHAEVEL IS ABUFFALO BOOSTER.Bualo is an incredible place to liveand raise a amily. Its small enoughso that you eel you can make adierence, but big enough that you

dont eel youre living in Mayberry,he says. Although Shaevel loves hisadopted home town, hes not sanguineabout its problems. Like many rust-belt cities across the North andMidwest, Bualo aces real economicand demographic challenges. Manyo the actories, mills, and plantsthat provided middle-class lives tothousands o workers are gone, andthe population is shrinking and graying.A lot o my riends went to collegeout-o-town and rooted their careersin major urban centers, Shaevel says.What remains in Western New Yorkare their parents and grandparents.To maintain an inviting place to live,a place where young people want tostay or settle, Bualo needs to ind anew neus o opportunity, he believes.Because the State University o NewYork has multiple university locationsacross the state, one strategy isto transorm Bualo into the AnnArbor o New York. We have asolid core o hospitals and researchcenters in Western New York, andin conjunction with the University

at Bualo, signiicant research andspin-o business opportunities arebeing created, Shaevel says. This isan investment that I believe will payreal dividends.

Similar challenges ace BualosJewish community. Demographictrends show a population o 25,000Jews in the 1970s, less than 12,000today and recent orecasts projectonly 8,000 by 2018. The Jewish

ederation is raising roughly the samedollars, but with inlation, the dollarsare worth less and theyre comingrom ewer donors. Yet Bualo hasmore Jewish programs, services andinstitutional buildings now than it did25 years ago. Shaevel believes theres

a need to adjust the communitysinrastructure. Were supporting theinrastructure o 30 years ago witha population and donor base that isless than hal the size it was then. Allthe agencies in this community needto come together and collaborate ina smarter way, he says. One o theprojects Im heavily invested in is tobring all the constituencies togetherto realign our community. Were doingsome very inclusive and creativelarge-scale planning, with the hope oproactively creating new scenarios orour community beore we are besiegedwith crisis.

Shaevel moved to Bualo romParsipanny, New Jersey, at nineyears old when his ather went towork or a rozen-ood company.A ood technologist by training,Shaevels ather started his careerat Manischewitz and then went on toNabisco where he developed deliciousnew products, including double-stued Oreos. The younger Shaevel,an entrepreneur, is more interested in

inance and marketing than cookies orcrackers, and has ocused his careerin investment banking and strategicplanning since he graduated CanisiusCollege. Its the thrill o doing deals,Shaevel says, that interests him.The eciting part is developing auniue strategy and then iguringout how to put the pieces together.Shaevel has successully cratedbusinesses in banking, automobileinance, mortgages and receivable

management, as well as applying henergy and talent to the local andnational philanthropic community.list o communal ailiations is longand diverse, ranging rom the HilleFoundation o Bualo to United Wato Junior Achievement, as well as

Florence G. Heller-JCC AssociationResearch Center and the EecutivCommittee o JCC Association.Shaevel chairs the BrandingImplementation and Marketing TasForce, which rolled out the JCCBrand, the wide-ranging brandingproject that JCC Association oerto JCCs.

A ormer president o the JCC oGreater Bualo and chair o the LoRange Planning Task Force o theJewish Federation o Greater BuaShaevel has deinite ideas about whneeds to be done to ensure the vitao the Bualo Jewish community. have to break out o the traditionalinstitutional silos, eliminate theduplication o eorts, and share spand resources across the communitIn addition to providing health anditness services, early childhoodprograms, and camping, the JCChas the uniue opportunity to serveas a central gathering place, a neuwhere our community gathers. Eaon in the planning process, Shaevel

consulted with JCC Associationand learned that other mid-sizecommunities were acing similarchallenges, although some are growwhile others are shrinking. They hasimilar issues but dierent emotionbaggage. Were hopeul that theoutcome o our planning process wbe very successul and create a newmodel or us and other communitieDespite our challenges, in many wathink were ahead o the curve.

leadership prof

Andew Shaevel:

Planning Ahead Inse

a Bette FteBy Miiam rinn


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