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A Letter From Our President/CEO
Dear Friends,
We are so fortunate to be living
through a truly amazing season
of transformation for JCC Greater
Boston. Guided by our Strategic
Plan, and with the support of our
generous community of donors, we
have wasted no time updating and
reimagining our physical spaces
and visual identity to better
reflect the current needs of our
community and our vision going
forward.
The first thing you likely noticed
when opening this Community
Report was our new logo! The new
JCC logo represents the dynamic,
modern, and evolving community
we serve, and combined with the new tagline of Find Your Center, our new visual identity reaffirms
our commitment to building an expansive and thriving community where everyone belongs. A more
detailed explanation of the process and symbolism behind our new logo is provided later in this
Community Report, along with some exciting updates on what is new to enjoy at the JCC right now, as
well as what is still to come.
As our fiscal year comes to a close, we extend our deepest gratitude to our outgoing Board Chair,
Mara Riemer Goldstein, for her outstanding leadership over the past three years. Our organization has
been truly fortunate to benefit from the dedication of Mara and her father, Bob Goldstein, our former
Board Chair, as their family’s four-generation connection to the JCC continues to inspire us. Turn the
pages to read about the amazing JCC@333 event honoring Mara and her family. We are also thrilled
to welcome our incoming Board Chair, Mitchell Leiman. You can learn more about Mitchell in the
following pages.
In this significant season of change and growth, I am reminded of a poem by the beloved Boston poet,
e.e. cummings, “Spring is like a perhaps hand,” in which he writes: “Spring is like a perhaps hand/...
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