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YOU ARE HERE: eNews >> Archive >> eNews August 05USCJ eNews: The United Synagogue Electronic BulletinAugust 2005
In This Issue: 
USCJ Biennial Convention, December 2005 - United Synagogue's Biennial Convention, December 4-8 in Boston, will include workshops, seminars, institutes, music, speakers, hard information, spirituality, learning, davenning, text study, friendship, vendors, and much more. Check out the convention brochure, download a registration form or register online, and take a look at the list of vendors who will be at the convention from Sunday till Wednesday. High Holiday Cantor Placement - The USCJ offers a cantor placement service for the High Holidays.
The USCJ Art Engagement Calendar Contest - If your synagogue has any unusual or unusually beautiful features, Judaica, or other artwork - including stained glass windows, ark or ark curtains, architectural or structural elements, paintings or wall hangings, or anything else that photographs well - consider entering the USCJ 5767 Art Engagement Calendar Contest. Please send us a high-quality photograph or slide, either hard copy or electronic. The submission deadline is September 15, 2005. Project Reconnect's Going to Israel - Project Reconnect - the group where USY Atid, Koach, Nativ, and the Conservative Yeshiva in Israel can meet again and revitalize old connections — is going to Israel. You can download a registration form here. SULAM - SULAM, the leadership training program for synagogue vice presidents and new presidents, invites participants to one of two sessions this spring. On March 9-12, the program will meet in the Westin Hotel in San Francisco, and on March 30 to April 2 it will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Newark. Learn to climb the ladder! For information, call Rabbi Moshe Edelman at (212) 533-7800, ext. 2205, or email him at Edelman@uscj.org. [ Back to Top ]
USCJ Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center - This summer, a record number of students studied at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in Jerusalem, part of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center. According to the center's director, Rabbi Jim Lebeau, the impressive numbers show how deep the Conservative movement's desire for study is, and how well the center can meet those needs. This summer, 91 students studied at Fuchsberg. Twenty-two of them were college students, 25 were between 23 and 40 years old, and 48 were over 40. Sixty-seven came from the United States, 17 from Europe, 6 from Israel, and one from Korea. The group included rabbis, cantors, rabbinical students, and other Jewish professionals; they were joined by teachers and other educators; counselors and therapists; lawyers; health-care professionals; musicians, artists, and writers; businesspeople, retirees, and a full-time mother. Directors' Institutes - At the beginning of August, 30 new Hebrew school directors met at United Synagogue headquarters for the New Directors? Institute, five days of discussions, workshops, talking, listening, and learning.
The New Directors' Institute followed Lilmod U'Lilamed, a pilot program aimed at Hebrew school directors who already have at least a few years of experience. The four-day program drew 25 participants; about half were New Directors' Institute graduates. Seminar Retreat - From July 31 to August 8, 13 participants and 3 staffers gathered at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires for Imun, the seminar retreat designed to train lay leaders in synagogue skills, including reading Torah and haftarah and delivering d'vrei Torah. [ Back to Top ]
USCJ Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center - If you are planning a trip to Israel, be sure to look to the Fuchsberg Center for travel help, learning and volunteer opportunities, help in planning bar and bat mitzvah services and celebrations, learning and volunteer opportunities, accommodations, and more. Learn more about the center's programs and services. Project Ezra Offers Staples Program - Your congregation can now order discount office supplies and more through USCJ's partnership with Staples Business Advantage. You can help your synagogue earn money on its credit card transactions through CauseWeCare. Learn how it works. [ Back to Top ]
Now is a great time to collect those college student e-mails and pass them on to Koach. Students will receive monthly e-news with links to our Koach On Campus E-zine, weekly Israel updates, and special notices of student conferences and activities. Lists can be forwarded to koach@uscj.org or sent to Koach, 601 Skokie Blvd, Suite 402, Northbrook, IL, 60062. Snail mail"addresses are also welcome! [ Back to Top ]
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World Zionist Congress Elections Are Coming! Support the Conservative Movement. Vote MERCAZ! The Conservative movement's electoral campaign for representation in the 35th World Zionist Congress has begun. Voter registration opened July 1. The voting process will be in two stages, as it was in 1997 and 2002. Registration, which costs $7 per adult, $5 per student, will be open until January 15, 2006, by mail and until February 15 online. Ballots will be distributed starting in mid-November, 2005, and voting will end on February 28. Online Registration - Go to www.mercazusa.org and click on "Register." For information about the WZO election, and to learn why MERCAZ needs your support, click on "Learn." Mail-in Registration - MERCAZ will be mailing registration forms to its members over the next few weeks, and voters who participated in the 2002 WZO elections will receive registration forms directly from the American Zionist movement. Registration forms also can be downloaded from the MERCAZ website. Even if you are now a member of MERCAZ or voted in the 2002 WZO elections, you still have to register to vote this year. Voting for MERCAZ - Once you are registered and receive your ballot, vote for MERCAZ. Put your belief in the Conservative Movement in North American and the Masorti movement in Israel to work. For more information, call the MERCAZ office at 1-888-99 MERCAZ (1-888-996-3722) or email info@mercazusa.org. [ Back to Top ]
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