FJMC offers you an opportunity to express yourself through participating in and leading activities that are most important to you.

From a worldwide pandemic to significant budgetary challenges to a major staff change - the FJMC faced significant challenges and came out on top.

Big questions have been circling around our minds over the past few weeks: How do we begin again after the pandemic that has so upended our lives, our communities and institutions? Are we turning or returning? Where are we heading and how do we get there?

Dates: June 6 - June 13, 2021

Rabbi  Sharon Brous - Sunday June 6, 7:00 PM ET. 

Rabbi Brous was named #1 on the Newsweek/The Daily Beast list of the most influential Rabbis in America, and has been recognized by The Forward and the Jerusalem Post as one of the fifty most influential Jews. She was featured on the cover of TIME magazine in 2018 based on Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms. 

Her Ted Talk, It’s Time to Reclaim Religion has been viewed more than 1,400,000 times

Lea Hochman - Monday, June 7, 9:00 ET. 

For many years, Lea Hochman (née Zimmerman) kept her painful memories of the Shoah locked inside. 

Lea was born in a small village in Poland called Pohorce. In November 1942, her family was taken, along with the 9 other Jewish families in that village, to a ghetto in the city of Komarno.  Lea escaped the ghetto minutes before it was liquidated.  Her story of survival is unusual. She was able to survive by disguising herself as a Gentile. “I hid my identity, not my body”.   In January 2011, Lea spoke publicly for the first time at a private high school in Toronto. Since that time, she has spoken to many different groups to share her experiences and to spread her message of hope.

So what are you waiting for, register now! Checkout the new convention website.    (www.fjmcconvention2021.org.)

We have upgraded our email system to provide you with the ability to customize the emails you will receive from FJMC based on the following categories.  Our goal is to allow you to receive just the right number of emails from FJMC for you.

• HaShofar (monthly)
• Live Webinars/Affinity Groups - THIS WEEK (weekly)
• Webinar/Affinity Group Event Emails
• Convention Information
• General Announcements (Yellow Candles, WWW, etc)
• International Kiddush Club (weekly)
• Affinity Group - XYZ (each Affinity group would be listed).

At a minimum we are hoping everyone will subscribe to our monthly HaShofar email and the weekly Live Webinars/Affinity Group - THIS WEEK emails.  If you want more detailed information, including event announcements and reminders, subscribe to the Webinar/Affinity Group Event Emails; for even more details about a particular Affinity Group, subscribe to that group.  During the pandemic, we have increased the frequency of our email communications due to a dramatic rise in participation in our Webinar/Affinity Group events when we send out event-specific announcements and reminders.  These extra emails may be too much for some of you, so now you have control to manage this to your liking.

FJMC Skills and Talents Database

One of the great things about the FJMC is that it is completely led and run by volunteer lay leaders. For those of us that have been involved in Jewish communal work, we know that this is a major accomplishment. We are always looking for members with specific talents and skills to replenish our cadre of volunteers as they move up in the organization and take on more responsibilities on the international and regional level. The link below is a survey to assess what talents and skills are available in our membership. The database is used by our International leadership and Committee Chairmen that are always in need of new volunteers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey by clicking on the link below. We promise it will only take a few minutes and could lead to you having an impact on the FJMC. 

You don’t need to be an Expert in something, in order to make an impact with the FJMC.

For example, the FJMC Skills and Talents Database is looking for another ‘coordinator.’ That person might be YOU!  And in such a position, you don’t have to know much about databases.  All the heavy-lifting of ‘analysis’ of the data which people enter, is done magically by reformed (we are looking for such, which are part of the Conservative movement) ‘gremlins’ who have given up their mischievous ways and designed the filtering elements that anyone can use such tools.  

Click on the link to take our Skills and Talents survey.

Without the FJMC, valuable Jewish programming might never occur.  FJMC needs your financial support in order to continue to create the important programs which keeps your Men’s Club vibrant.  You can help preserve the significant impact the FJMC and its members have made on behalf of the Conservative Movement and World Jewry by making a pledge. Our movement depends on you!