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A Bittersweet Announcement
A Bittersweet Announcement
Thank you for the honor of serving as Director of Senior Services for Jewish Social Services. It has been a privilege beyond description and added such meaning to each day. So, it is that with a sense of gratitude and trepidation that I am letting you know of my decision to leave my position with JSS as of July 1, 2012.
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Live From NY's 92nd Street Y- Spring 2012
Summary on Medical Assistance
Medical Assistance, also known as MA and Medicare has grown over the years. Some of the growth is reflected in summaries of information provided by the Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) which released its audit of the Medical Assistance Program (MA). The audit found that program expenditures and participants have increased substantially since the 2006-07 fiscal year (FY), and that oversight of vendors could be improved. The following is a portion of the report:
Lechayim Lights
Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary Photographer
Travelling is a pleasurable and effective way to see the world; looking through the eyes of a photographer can also be compelling. On Monday, February 13 Professor Melanie Herzog, Professor of Art History at Edgewood College, will speak about the photographer Milton Rogovin, in a talk that shares its title with her book Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary Photographer.
“A Jewish Librarian in Germany" by Phyllis Holman Weisbard
Last year the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Continuing Education sponsored a trip to Germany for graduate students in SLIS, who took the trip for credit, and other interested people. As librarians they were of course interested in the various libraries and archives they visited. Another attraction was the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type ca 1439 and its museum. One of the travelers was Phyllis Holman Weisbard, spent her free time investigating the remarkable rebirth of Jewish life in modern, reunified Germany. On Monday, February 6 she will talk about what she discovered in her role as “A Jewish Librarian in Germany.”
Hitchhiking from Vietnam: Seeking the Ox
We’ll travel from somewhere rather than to a destination when local author Richard Chamberlin speaks to us on Monday February 27. He is the author of Hitchhiking from Vietnam: Seeking the Ox, an account of a Vietnam veteran’s meandering journey to fulfillment during the 60’s and 70’s, based on the cross-country hitchhiking trip the author took when he was 30 years old. The central part of the book is a series of flashbacks of Chamberlin’s experiences with the Navy’s Seabees in Vietnam.
“Israel’s nature, from Dan to Eilat”
We’ll “travel” to Israel on Monday, February 20 when Dan Landa, one of our current shlichim (emissaries) from Israel, will present “Israel’s nature, from Dan to Eilat” in words and pictures.
