by JRC member Charlene Gelber I want to wish us all a Happy 60th anniversary. I wasn’t yet of age in 1964 to join this new Havura, but with my young family, joined in 1978. I jumped right into committees, the Board, and became President in 1983. I was President while...
Preamble: The JRC Board of Directors has endorsed the following statement written by the Israel-Palestine working group. JRC is home to a broad range of opinions, beliefs, and political alignments. We worked together to find our commonalities and create a statement...
The JRC Community is sponsoring two refugee families this winter. Can you help us both meet their needs and sponsor a 3rd family? JRC member Fred Wellisch shares below how these new families are becoming a part of our community. We were standing on the corner of...
JRC is an amazing, vibrant, dedicated, and participatory community. At last year’s annual meeting, we described how JRC had managed to adapt to the unexpected lockdown as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. Like many other organizations, we tackled new challenges...
“Wow. That must have been really hard.” This is consistently the response I get when people hear that I began a new job as a synagogue executive director in May, at the beginning of the pandemic (doesn’t everyone mark time by where an event falls in relation to the...
Several years ago, JRC was offered what turned out to be a wonderful gift which came, as gifts sometimes do, wrapped up in a big complicated mess. Isn’t that often how it goes, not just for us as individuals, but for the Jewish people in general? If it weren’t for the...
