Thursday, May 21, 2009
You should be extremely proud of yourselves
Well its “Regional time” already and what a year! In a whirlwind year our alumni should be extremely proud of the tremendous support they have show our younger alumni on college campus!
Between the economy, a new OU Executive Director Rabbi Steve Weil, The International Director of NCSY Rabbi Steven Burg adding OU Chief of staff to his responsibilities in addition to NCSY, a brand new Associate NCSY International Director Susan Holzman Wachsstock (David Frankel is the new OU COO) and Rabbi Nahum Zak moving to take over for Rabbi Tully Bryks as South Florida Regional Director (Tully and family are making Aliyah and running the Bar Ilan NCSY American program) I don’t know where to begin. Lets just say that I’m very proud to be part of an organization that is taking major strides towards maintaining excellence in NCSY and Kashrut and other existing departments and reaching for excellence in new endeavours to serve the Jewish community!
I’m especially proud of how our NCSY/OU alumni have come out in a loud unified voice of support for our work in connecting our aliumni in college with great Jewish programs. Even as the economy has been through major trials the donations from our alumni have increased to make up for the loss of other forms of support. The outlook is very bright for our alumni and it is all because of you.
I am proud to be director of such a wonderful, caring and supportive peer group and look forward to a even better future Im Yirtzah Hashem.
Have an awesome Shavuot,
Rabbi Dave
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