My New Jewish Heroes

Before I left for Cuba on the Women’s Philanthropy Major Gifts Mission, I was sure that I would have weeks of columns to write that would simply roll off my fingers and onto the page. I was correct – I have weeks of columns, but they are not coming to me easily. We met true Jewish heroes…

Cuba’s Jewish Community – A Miraculous Rebirth

I am just back from a place that will never leave me. I just went to Cuba, with twenty-two other women from MetroWest’s Women’s Philanthropy. We returned on Monday night, at least physically, but we are all still turning over in our minds all of the different facets of one of the most fa…

Happy Birthday to a Very Special Ten Year Old

Do you remember being ten years old? I do – it was a wonderful year for me, in fact. It was the first time I remember being more aware of the outside world. Israel won the Six Day War shortly before my summer birthday, and as a new Young Judean, I was so proud. The Boston Red Sox were on t…

Bringing a Bit of Bling to Winter

Okay, we are definitely in a long stretch of gray here in MetroWest, at least weather-wise, and from what the forecasters are saying, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. From where I’m sitting however, looking at what’s going on inside Women’s Philanthropy rather than outs…

How Together We Make Things Happen

There are so many women I met on the Heart 2 Heart Mission last month that I still have to tell you about – young women studying for their MBA degrees in a new one-year intensive program at Tel Aviv University, the fabulous Ethnic Empowerment women from our Partnership 2000 community of Of…