YLD Chair's Blog

Israel at 62

With Israel celebrating its 62nd birthday, I thought it important to reframe how we view Israel toward the positive, and not focus on the ongoing conflict with her neighbors (with help from The New York Times and Start-Up Nation):
Per capita annual gross domestic product is nearly $30,000, cl…

Family U: A day of learning for everyone

One of the best take-home action points from the Young Leadership Conference in Boston was the need for us to increase our Jewish literacy. We heard speakers from volunteer organizations and global companies quote Torah and use the Tanakh for guidance in our modern day lives. This Sunday,  …

Live from Boston!

Along with one of our Steering Committee members, Ben Marsh, I am attending The Jewish Federations of North America National Young Leadership Conference in Boston (March 14-16). While at the conference, Eric Ritvo, National Young Leadership's Social Networking co-chair and co-editor of “Ch…

Know a good book?

This weekend I will be heading up to Boston for the National Young Leadership Conference, where the theme will be creating a vision and turning that into action. It’s the perfect opportunity to discover some of the best ideas from around the country and how we can incorporate them into our…

More YLD excitement on the way

Keep an eye on the new YLD website and the YLD Facebook site because we've got a lot of fun events coming up. At the end of February a great Julington Creek event, in late March a terrific Young Family event, and in mid-March a couple of us are attending the YLD conference in Boston with a g…