From the desk of the President

Roberta Nyman, President

It was with the greatest of pleasure, at the Annual Meeting on May 8th, that I was able to thank Howard Levy for his service to our community as the President of the Jewish Federation of Palm Springs and Desert Area for the last three years. .......STORY

 

 

Women's Division 2008/2009

Celia Norian  

Women's Division President

As I write this article, I am preparing to go to Israel. No, I’m not going with the Federation mission, led by Barbara and Bernie Fromm......STORY


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Our Religious Institutions Part 4: Beth Shalom and Desert Synagogue

Alan Klugman

Exexutive Vice President

How rich a Jewish community is in terms of what it offers spiritually to its members is perhaps reflected not in the large institutions that define it, but in the smaller ones that round out the options.  .....STORY

A Fact Finding Trip to Israel

By Jim Levitas, Vice-President, Special Overseas Projects
 

As I settled into my seat aboard the El Al airliner that was about to take me from JFK to Tel Aviv in the summer of 2002, I struck up a conversation with a man from Chicago who was seated next to me. Upon learning that this was to be my first ever trip to Israel, he said “you will never be the same after this trip.” Mid-way through that journey, I knew what he meant. It took me 57 years.......STORY


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