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Please check out all of the things happening at the
Jewish Federation!
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Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Foundation Joint Annual Meeting
| Thursday June 3, 2010
6:30 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres
7:00 p.m. Annual Meeting, Lipeles Auditorium
Honoring:
Past and Future leadership of the
Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Foundation
Robert Baldwin Service Award Recipient,
Shelley Carl
and Members of the 2009-2010 New Leaders Forum
This meeting is open to the entire community. We hope you will be able to join us to hear all about the past year and how we are moving towards the future.
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Jewish Council on Public Affairs
| The Jewish Federation of Greater Long Beach is a member agency of JCPA and supports their efforts to lead the national coalition of Jewish
organizations to collect signatures and raise awareness about the connection
between energy policy and the funding of Iran's illicit nuclear weapons program
and the funding of terrorism.
 Please sign the petition at www.dontfundterror.org.
The mission of JCPA is to serve as the representative voice
of the organized American Jewish community in addressing the principal
mandate of the Jewish community relations field, expressed in three
interrelated goals:
1) To safeguard the rights of Jews here and around the world; 2)To dedicate ourselves to the safety and security of the state of Israel; 3) To protect, preserve and promote a just American society, one that
is democratic and pluralistic, one that furthers harmonious inter-religious, inter ethnic interracial and other inter-group relations.
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Jewish Federations Come to the Aid of Nashville
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Jewish Federations throughout North America are mobilizing to help
victims of the recent severe flooding in Tennessee.
The Jewish Federation of
Nashville & Middle Tennessee and its agencies have been supporting local
flood relief efforts since torrential rains inundated the Southeast, causing an
estimated $1 billion in damage in Tennessee, Kentucky and
Mississippi. This flood, claiming 23 lives, may prove to be the
largest natural domestic disaster since Hurricane Katrina.
Federations and individuals have donated more than $50,000 already to the
Nashville Federation. Federations are greatly encouraged to donate more to
ensure that Nashville can provide critical services to those who are displaced
from their homes. Large-City Federations have united in an act of collective
responsibility, pledging upwards of $100,000.
"So far, we have disbursed more than $43,000 to 46 families. We are
now embarking on phase two of our allocations process, a more thorough
assessment of the needs. We will be looking to other Federations for help in
the coming weeks and are praying they will continue to answer our call," explains Steven Edelstein, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Nashville.
If you would like to help, click here and write Nashville Floods
in the note section of the checkout page.
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Campaign Closing Phone-a-thon
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Please help us connect with those in the community who have not yet made their 2010 Annual Campaign Donation.
Sunday May 23, 2010 from 9:30 a.m till 12:30 p.m
Come When you Can!
Save Us a Call- If you have not yet made your 2010 Annual Campaign donation you may do so on our new website: www.jewishlongbeach.org
Please let Sharon Kenigsberg know what time you will be joining us. sharonk@jewishlongbeach.org or 562-426-7601 EXT 1008
The Jewish Federation Annual Campaign
supports our local partner agencies, the Alpert JCC, Jewish Family and
Children's Service, Long Beach Hillel, and the Hebrew Academy as well as
our overseas partners, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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Fact of the Week
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support JDC's work in Kyrgyzstan, home to an estimated 1,300 Jews. JDC's local
Hesed welfare center provides food and medicine to the community. JDC also
provides a Jewish library, family education programs, aid for the elderly and
at-risk children. During recent political upheaval in the country, JDC
monitored the Jewish community's safety and ensured they continued to receive
critical support.
For more information, click here.
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Long Beach supports its family of agencies as they help the needy, respond to crisis, and foster community and identity. For more information, visit our website www.jewishlongbeach.org
or call us at 562-426-7601.
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