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VOL. X, NO. 7

President’s Message

Shalom.

The past six months have seen many
changes in your Federation and development of
a foundation for many others.

Most visible to date is our new office
location. We have moved to the Chevy Chase
neighborhood, as you all know, and have made
significant progress in organizing files and other
materials. Credit for the bulk of this progress,
and ongoing support for our committees must go
to our staff: Interim Director Evelyn Geller,
Program Director Sharyn Sharer, and Secretary
Kimberly Nye.

This past spring I appointed Mike Ades
as chair of a Search Committee to locate a new
Director. The Committee began its work by
analyzing the nature and scope of the Director‘s
position. Along with the conclusion that this
could easily be a full time job, came the exciting
news that two different sources were offering us
grants that would enable us to hire a full-time
Director and to upgrade our office facilities. One
grant, totalling $18,000.00 is available for use
beginning this calendar year through 1993. The
second grant of $9000.00 is applicable to 1993.
We are most grateful to the several members of
the Central Kentucky Jewish community who
have the foresight and commitment to provide
this support.

Therefore, we have conducted a local
and national search for a new Director. As of
this writing we anticipate appointing someone in
the very near future. This step augurs a
significant and substantive change in the
capability of CKJF to expand its activities and
services and to impact on the Jewish and general
community.

Concurrent with our move and our
search, the Board has engaged in a long range
planning process that began in May. With
Marilyn Moosnick serving as our facilitator we
spent part of two meetings creating a list of our
goals and dreams - everything we could possibly
want or need to build a stronger Jewish

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community with a full complement of programs
and services.

In August, at a full day retreat, we
selected our top nine priorities as our goals for
the next three years, we also took into
consideration the time needed to achieve
substantive results. Where programs and
services already exist, our efforts will be geared
to supplementing, strengthening and enhancing
them.

For the first year we plan to concentrate
on three areas: 1) Extending efforts to involve
more members of our Jewish community in
interfaith dialogues and social action within the
Lexington community; 2) Work on expanding
services and programs for older adults; and 3)
Explore and develop support programs for
intermarried families.

Future goals include enhancing our public
relations efforts in the Central Kentucky
community; search out and develop new
leadership to insure our continuity and broaden
our volunteer base; work on developing a
program of youth services that would include all
the Jewish children in our community. Finally,
the two biggest and most ambitious goals relate
to exploring and developing a professionally
staffed Social Services component of our
Federation, and a Jewish Center facility to
enhance Jewish Community interaction at all
ages and stages of life.

I know you will agree with me that this is
a most ambitious list. I hope you will also agree
that these are all goals worthy of our time, effort
and commitment. We, as a Board, can direct our
energies toward initiating the planning and action
required, but we cannot achieve results without
the support, and participation of all of you who
are part of this community. I hope you will call us
and volunteer your help. I hope you will add your
comments and suggestions to our list of goals.
I hope you will contribute your time and your
money. There is much to be proud of here, but
together we can build an even better Jewish life
for ourselves and our children.

I look to the future with great anticipationl

-Judy Saxe