Wednesday, June 22, 2011

CATCHING UP...ONCE MORE

As we wind the Blog down toward June 30, it's hard to avoid some of the "stuff' that JFNA provides on a more or less daily basis. Some of it good, some of it bad and some of it...strange. For example:

~ The strange. On June 20 the JFNA Briefing: JFNA Participates In Israeli Emergency Simulation Drill. I think the purpose was to tell us how important JFNA-Israel is but to me it just suggested the following:

LEADERSHIP BRIEFING: JFNA PARTICIPATES IN FIRE DRILL AT 25 BROADWAY.

JFNA staff participated today in a fire drill exercise at its New York Headquarters. Alerted by the New York City Fire Department that the drill would take place today, JFNA mobilized its floor captains and hall monitors to assure that....

Worthy of a Briefing? Only at JFNA...

~ The good. After fifteen years the Jewish Leadership Forum will convene with minimum gift requirement from the high potential leaders who will attend. That's great and a major step forward, coupled with the progress made in last year's event, toward making the JLF federation-centric. Congratulations to the JLF lay and professional leadership.

Rwexler

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