NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2006 - COUNCIL

Meeting:

• The PJCEA Council met on Tuesday, December 5th at the home of Michele Paton

Services:

• Civic service deemed to be a great success, well organized, good PR and a great team effort
• A rabbinic student for the January service in hand
• Kiddush Rota review in hand
• Purchase of tanakhs in hand; ditto copies of new LJY-Netzer Youth Siddur
• To further develop the idea of having mid-month Friday evening services in members' homes
• Next service: Friday, December 29th at the Old Meeting House

Education:

• Byron hoped to meet with Coral Drane of NHC after the holidays, to see how we might move forward the idea of pooling cheder resources
• Need to resolve a clash between Rachel's cheder session (for the younger kids) and the Hebrew session
• PJC and NHC kids to put on a Hanukkah play (at The Synagogue, Earlham Road on Sunday, December 17th
• Next Engaging with Judaism session: Saturday, December 30th in the OMH Peill Room.  Topic: Hanukkah

Membership:

• Byron and Sarah to meet to see how her Linking the Community proposals might be moved forward
• A number of new enquiries had been received and information packs sent out
• Sarah had prepared a paper, "Linking the Community", to be published in the newsletter
• Membership to be encouraged to sign up to the telephone tree, intended for Members and Friends of PJC only
• One info pack sent out

Treasurer:

• Civic Service budget and expenditure details submitted
• Letters to be sent out for subsription renewals (due January)
• New Roots were unable accept donations in kind
• Draft 2007 budget submitted

Social/Events:

• To further develop the idea of having mid-month Saturday chavurah lunches
• ECAPS study weekend at St Gabriel's was excellent. It was planned to hold it there again next year
• Hanukkah Party December 17th at The Synagogue, Earlham Road
• Next Jewish Book Club: Tuesday, January 9th at the Leveton's (The Yellow Wind by David Grossman)
• NISS & NJLS Buffet Supper at The Synagogue, Earlham Road. Speaker: Elkan Levy
• Joan Goodman lecture

NEWSLETTER/PR:

• Excellent PR for the Civic Service
• Michele agreed to take on PR. Any copy intended to go out under the PJC banner, to be routed through her
• Copy date Tuesday, December 7th

AOB:

• Burial Committee met on Monday, November 20th. Jenny Lawrence agreed to chair the committed
• The Ideas Day SWOT Analysis and Action Plan reviewed. Agreed to hold a second "Day", hopefully at the end of March
• Meeting of the Executive to be aranged, to discuss, among other things, LJ service delivery

Next Meeting:

• Next meeting Thursday, January 4th at the home of Deborah Carpenter