Posts by JCC Association

PEBBLES IN THE POND On Wednesday afternoon, the largest JCCs of North America Professional Conference (ProCon) in the history of our movement wrapped up in Orlando, Florida as nearly 550 professionals from more than 90 JCCs across 34 states, four provinces and two continents began the journey home. Following four extraordinary days which featured 99 … Continued

The View from Jerusalem For the past few days, I have had the privilege, together with JCC Association’s board chair, Gary Jacobs, and his wife Jerri-Ann, to participate in the Israel Leadership Mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (COP). Along with dozens of leaders from the American Jewish community, we … Continued

Counting Our Blessings Every week the challenge and the opportunity are the same. How can we best transmit our story to the JCC Movement when there’s so much to say? The achievements. The questions. The potential. The human stories. The context. The personal. And so, we are compelled to choose from an extraordinary list of possibilities that grows by … Continued

Hadar This past Tuesday, Israel and the Jewish people bade farewell to one of the last of the pioneers who shaped the modern state and restored our nation to sovereignty after nearly 2,000 years. Moshe Arens, z’l, was eulogized as a three-time minister of defense, minister of foreign affairs and Israel’s ambassador to the United … Continued

Safeguarding Israel and the Jewish People My son, Aaron, began his IDF service on Dec. 23. The rest of the family arrived in Israel a few days earlier and spent those days together with Aaron up north near Kibbutz Afikim which has been his home since August. We were joined by a couple of his close friends … Continued