Shluchim Brave Cold to Make Summer Plans

Snow still covers the ground and the summer is months away, but JLI’s National Jewish Retreat is already laying the groundwork for its upcoming retreat in August 2013.

Although this annual celebration of the mind and body caters to Jews from across North America and beyond, the organizing committee adopts a more provincial approach to building the 5-day retreat. By consulting with shluchim who operate in the region of the retreat, the committee hopes to harness their localised knowledge and needs to the Retreat’s sprawling organizational apparatus.

A JLI delegation, headed by Retreat chairman Rabbi Hesh Epstein, Retreat director Rabbi Boruch Cohen and JLI’s executive director Rabbi Efraim Mintz, recently travelled to the host venue for the coming retreat, the Hilton in Alexandria VA, where they met for talks over dinner with 25 shluchim from the surrounding areas.

Rabbi Boruch Cohen says that