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| To read workshop summaries and to download handouts from the 2010 Synagogue Leadership Conference, visit the METNY website. |
Please click here to learn more about the upcoming Sulam 38 and Sulam 39. | |
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METNY's Biennial Convention
Nov. 14, 2010
9am-2:45pm
JOIN OVER 220 ATTENDEES FROM OVER 40 DIFFERENT
SYNAGOGUES IN THE METNY DISTRICT!
WALK-IN'S WELCOME
The place to be on Sunday, November 14 is the METNY Biennial Convention! We hope that you will join the 150 already registered participants from around the New York area at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle for our 2010 Biennial Convention! To register please click here.
Our theme will be "The Charismatic Kehillah". Using the pillars of the book, The Charismatic Organization, we will learn how to transform your congregation into a dynamic kehillah, or community, that is mission-based, forward thinking and attracts and retains volunteers through meaningful engagement and contemporary communications.
Below you will find the conventions schedule and workshop presentations.
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8 am-9am | Shacharit, Registration and Continental breakfast | |
9 am | Plenary session, Election and Installation of New METNY Officers | |
10:10-10:30 am | Keynote Address - Rabbi Alan Silverstein, Cong. Agudath Israel, W. Caldwell, NJ | |
10:40-11:55 am | Dynamic Workshops for Synagogue Leaders | |
Noon | Panel discussion on "The Charismatic Kehillah" | |
1 pm-2:45 |
Luncheon, Rothschild Leadership and Synagogue Recognition Awards |
Workshops (10:35-11:50am) will cover:
· "Mission-Driven Motivation" - Kathy Elias, Mid-Atlantic USCJ, District Director
· "Can-do Culture" - Rabbi Paul Resnick, Director of Camp Ramah in the Berkshires; Rob Hirsch, President of Camp Ramah in the Berkshires; and David Silk, Co-President of Congregation Sulam Yakov, Larchmont, NY
· "Data-driven Decision Making" - Harry Chevan, Executive Vice President of The Kane Street Synagogue; Michelle Stack, Board Member of Huntington JC and Long Island Coordinator, UJA Federation NY
· "Purposeful Innovation" - Steve Katz, Immediate Past President, Temple Sholom, Greenwich, CT; and Michael Brofman, President, Hillcrest Jewish Center, Flushing, NY
· "People-Focused Management" - Ansche Chesed's (New York, NY) Leadership Team - Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, President Roberta Shapiro and Josh Hanft, Executive Director
· "Compelling Communications" - Susan Cantor, COO of Thinktopia; and Howard Goldberg, Assistant Director, Northeast District
· "Active Outreach" - Rabbi Cara Weinstein Rosenthal, Building Our Jewish Home, Coordinator; and Elaine Kleinman, Past President of Huntington Jewish Center
· "Meaningful Involvement" - Fred Passman, Chair, USCJ Leadership Development Committee; and Leah Jordan, member of the AJWS RSD rabbinic network and Kol Tzedek
· Torah Lishmah - Rabbi Joseph Brodie, Vice President Emeritus, Jewish Theological Seminary
Panelists (12pm-1pm) will feature:
- Jeremy Fingerman, Executive Director, The Foundation for Jewish Camp
- Ruth Messinger, Executive Director, American Jewish World Service
- Rabbi Alan Silverstein, Spiritual Leader, Agudath Israel, Caldwell, NJ
Then we will celebrate our Rothschild Leadership Award and the Synagogue Recognition Award . Mazel Tov to all of these deserved honorees!
For more information, please call the METNY office at 212-533-0800 or email Rabbi Charles Savenor at savenor@uscj.org. |
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Yasher Koach Korner
Mazal Tov to The Dix Hills Jewish Center (DHJC) on the Groundbreaking Day for the Julian Sandler Minyan Chapel.
USY Divisional Fall Kinnusim - We appreciate DHJC hosting the Rakevet Division USY Fall Kinnus this Shabbat. Todah Rabbah to Michael Hirsch, Divisional Director, and Ashley Lehrman, METNY USY Program Coordinator, for their hard work. Yasher Koach to the METNY Biennial Convention Committee for their hard work in planning the upcoming METNY Biennial on Sunday, November 14th at Beth El Synagogue Center. We have over 220 attendees registered from over 40 synagogues around the METNY District. Thanks to Beth El's professional staff, Irwin Davison and Erica Leventhal; president, Marc Klee; and clergy, Rabbis Sirner and Kosak and Hazzan Dardashti, for all of their assistance, partnership and hachnasat orchim with our METNY event this Sunday.
 Some members of the commitee met last week at Beth El Synagogue Center.
Thank you and Yasher Koach to:
Joel Cutler, convention chair - Oceanside Jewish Center
Robyn Cimbol - Forest Hills Jewish Center
Deanna Miller - JCC Harrison
Jeffry Horowitz - Orangetown Jewish Center
Beth Berman - North Shore Jewish Center
Bill Friedlieb - Congregation Tifereth Israel Norman Korowitz - North Shore Jewish Center
Carole Korowitz - North Shore Jewish Center
 Yasher Koach to the Greenburgh Hebrew Center for their synagogue windows being featured in the USCJ calendar for November 2010.
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Thank you for your continued support. Together we can make a difference!
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Executive Vice President, Canada-Israel Committee,
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METNY on the Road...
This week, METNY's staff are on the move!
Todd Hausman, USY Chazak Divisional Director met with Lake Success Jewish Center's Rabbi Michael Klayman, Youth Director Dan Graber and their youth committee
On November 7th, Rabbi Moshe Edelman served as the installing officer at the Little Neck Jewish Center's installation of Rabbi Gordon Yaffe.
On Nov. 11th, Rabbi Edelman met with Rabbi Avraham Rabinovich of the Bellmore Jewish Center about what METNY has to offer and how we can partner together.
On November 14th, Rabbi Charles Savenor will attend at the Temple Beth Shalom in Mahopac for the installation of Rabbi Eytan Hamerman.
On Nov. 15th-16th, Rabbi Savenor will lead leadership development workshops at Congregation Beth Israel in Milwaukee, WI. These sessions will focus on mission, volunteer engagement and creating a leadership plan for the future.
On Nov. 18th, Rabbi Edelman will meet Rabbi Howard Diamond, the new spiritual leader of Bnai Sholom in Rockville Centre, NY.
On November 18th, Rabbi Savenor will present at the Pelham Jewish Center on Strategic Planning.
Our road can lead to you, too!
We can train your synagogue board, work with your clergy and staff, do an adult education program...we'd love to have you on our road map!
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 In this week's The Jewish Week there appears an article about area synagogues revamping finances and programming after a pilot study about working with data. [Two of the synagogues will be presenting at our Biennial. See above.] The Huntington Jewish Center, The Kane Street Synagogue, The Westchester Jewish Center are featured in the article. Click here to learn more about their dynamic programs.
Rabbi Cara Weinstein Rosenthal, METNY's "Building Our Jewish Home" Coordinator, has been meeting with these synagogues and others around the region to improve their early childhood programs. Her recent visits include The Huntington Jewish Center, The Bellmore Jewish Center, The Hillcrest Jewish Center and The Israel Center of Conservative Judaism.
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METNY USY Rakevet Global Day of Jewish Learning
On Sunday, November 7 Rakevet and METNY USYers participated in our own event in honor of the Global Day of Jewish Learning. Jews all over the world studied text in honor of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's completion of his Talmud translation and commentary, which he had been working on since 1965. The USY event began with us viewing the siyum Rabbi Steinsaltz was leading, steaming on the web from Jerusalem. Honored speakers told us Rabbi Steinsaltz had dedicated his life to the mission of "Let my people know." We even learned from the great man himself, and responded amen to his recitation of the special hadran.
 When Rabbi Steinsaltz finished speaking we turned to our own community. USYers were taught first by Rabbi Rafi Rank of Midway Jewish Center. We studied Sanhedrin 37A-B from the Steinsaltz translation being celebrated. We also learned from Dahlia Bernstein, a Rakevet alumni and current JTS rabbinical student. She taught us the Talmudic text of "tanur shel Akhnai," reminding us that the Talmud belongs to all of us. Rakevet is incredibly fortunate to have such teachers in our midst! We look forward to continuing our learning this weekend at Rakevet Fall Kinnus.
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The 4th Annual Other Israel Film Festival, showcasing minority populations in Israel, begins tonight at the JCC in Manhattan. Here's a look at one of their many intriguing programs from your resident METNY film critic, Abe Fried-Tanzer.
Coffee: Between Reality and Imagination Abe Fried-Tanzer is an NYC-based fieldworker for KOACH, USCJ's College Outreach Project, as well as the editor of Movies With Abe and TV with Abe.
This five-part series is made up of short films, all inspired by coffee. Some are connected thinly by a momentary mention of the drink, like the first, a couch-set, intimate audition. The most entertaining and invigorating of the five, reminiscent of last year's Oscar-nominated animated short "French Roast," follows a short period of time in the life of a coffee shop owner, displeased by his newly received order of coffee cups with handles. The collection of films was made by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers and spans comedy and drama. All in all, the 68-minute presentation is an interesting look at how the same starting point can inspire such diverse and equally compelling results.
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LCCJ Keruv Initiative
With the upcoming December holidays, many families will be facing the "December dilemma". Now is a good time to remind rabbis, synagogue presidents and executive directors about the Keruv brochure developed by the LCCJ, which outlines the Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism's Principles of Outreach.
In addition, a recording of the recent teleconference on Keruv is now available: Listen to it here. |
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TO REGISTER FOR THE KADIMA SHABBATON CLICK HERE. |
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Chanukah is Right Around the Corner!
 It's Holiday time! In recent years, in addition to being known for Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday shopping day, it's also Jewish Book Month!
That's probably a good excuse for shopping for books that would make good Chanukah gifts for book lovers. Click here to view the Funny Books For Jewish Book Month And Hanukkah.
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At the height of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, America's most prominent rabbi, Abraham Joshua Heschel, embarked on a secret mission to Rome.His charge: to meet with Pope Paul VI and convince him to revoke the ancient charge against the Jews of deicide, which was used to justify the slaughter of Jews for two millennia. Click here to order tickets!
For more information on Heschel in Rome please see the recent Jewish Week Article and to learn more about Abraham Joshua Heschel click here. |
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Do we know who's who in your congregation?
METNY USCJ would like to keep all of your synagogue board members up to date on METNY programs and information. When your synagogue elects new board members, please fill out the Synagogue Leadership form and send back to the METNY office so we can include your leadership on our lists. Please click here for the form for 2010-11.
Please email, fax or mail to metny@uscj.org or fax to 212-533-0400. The form can be mailed to 820 Second Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10017.
Furthermore, many of our congregations are currently in search for professional and spiritual leadership. METNY is here to help. Please contact any of our staff with questions. We wish our congregations success in this sacred enterprise.
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