MERCAZ USA Newsletter — Summer 2010

Mazal Tov...

. . . to Rabbi Yoav Ende, Director of the Education Center at Kibbutz Hannaton, who was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish National Fund/KKL, succeeding Dr. Eilon Schwartz as one of the three MERCAZ Olami representatives on the KKL governing body.

. . . to Rabbi Jim Lebeau, who is retiring at the end of June as Director of the United Synagogue's Fuchsberg Center in Jerusalem. To celebrate his thirteen years as director, the Conservative Yeshiva has established the Rabbi Jim Lebeau Scholarship Fund. For more information about the special scholarship, go to www.razoo.com/story/Rabbi-Jim-Lebeau-Conservative-Yeshiva-Scholarship-Fund-1.

. . . to Emily Levy-Shochat, a veteran member of Congregation Hod v'Hadar in Kfar Saba, who was elected the new Chair of the Masorti Movement. A community organizer in the fields of education, health and social welfare, Emily made aliyah some 30 years ago from Boston and currently works as a consultant for non-profit and community-based organizations.

. . . to Alan Hoffman, Director of the Jewish Agency's Education Department, who was elected as the organization's new CEO. Hoffman, who came to Israel in 1967 from South Africa, is the first immigrant to serve as the Jewish Agency's top professional.

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