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UJC Weekly e-Update

March 2, 2011
In this issue:
"Max"imum PotentialFrom the New Jersey Jewish News
From Leslie's LaptopA Perfect Time to Hire
"Max"imum Potential

Upcoming Events

From Memory to History
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Jewish Volunteer Network

a blog by UJC's Executive VP, Max Kleinman

A Tale of Two Cities

We are confronted on a daily basis with the horrific news from Tripoli in which the tyrant Qaddafi is slaughtering his own people. Eyewitness reports indicate that this madman has dispatched helicopter gunships and airplanes to decimate his people and hired foreign mercenaries and terrorists to be his foot soldiers in slaughter.   more
 From the New Jersey Jewish News
by Robert Wiener, NJJN Staff Writer

Wilfs' gift to Och Academy boosts renovation plans

Philanthropists Jane and Mark Wilf of Livingston have donated $2 million to help finance renovation of the lower school at the Golda Och Academy, the Conservative Jewish day school in West Orange. The school's lower school campus on Gregory Road will be renamed the Wilf Lower School Campus in recognition of the gift. That campus serves youngsters in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, while the upper school, at the Eric F. Ross Campus on Pleasant Valley Way, serves students in grade six-12.   more
 From Leslie's Laptop
a blog by Leslie Dannin Rosenthal,
Vice Co-Chair of Major Gifts


Being True to Who We Are

One of the stops on our Heart to Heart 2 Mission was at the site of the terrible forest fire on Mt. Carmel, where 44 people lost their lives, 42 of them prison guards or trainees, one a teenage volunteer, trying to ensure the safe evacuation of a prison. We were there to remember all of them, and to pay special tribute to Ahuva Tomer, the first woman to command the Haifa Police Station. She died from burns she suffered while trying to save the prison guards and trainees.   more
 A Perfect Time to Hire


JVS Candidates are Highly Qualified Professionals

Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest NJ, a partner agency of UJC MetroWest, offers a complete Job Placement and Career Counseling Service, which links employers with employees to help unemployed and underemployed Jewish residents of MetroWest obtain interesting and suitable employment.  morerule

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