I get in trouble often. Not the serious kind of trouble, but the “CEO who should know better but absolutely does not” kind of trouble.
Every time I let someone RSVP late for one of our events, I get called into our event planner’s office. “Rob, sigh.” That’s usually how the meet…
Option A: Two weddings over a long weekend at one of our large area synagogues. Three hundred of our closest family and friends at each wedding—one Friday afternoon, the other Sunday afternoon.
Then COVID arrived, and Option A disappeared—replaced by two separate Option Bs.
For our dau…
For two weeks, I shared personal reflections from my recent trip to Israel. Last week, I shifted gears to focus on our pulse survey and the presentations that followed. I want to begin this week by offering sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to attend one of those sessions. Your en…
As part of a broader effort to better understand how Jewish people in our community connect to Jewish life, our Federation invested in a comprehensive demographic study known as the Pulse Survey. The survey was conducted locally by the Opinion Research Institute as part of a larger national …
The first alarm is startling. It wakes you in the middle of the night, interrupts meals, and disrupts travel—exactly as it’s designed to. This is the early warning from Home Front Command: missiles have been fired from Iran, but their exact trajectory isn’t yet known. The warning gives…
