SUSY Minutes: October 22, 2003!

ISRAEL UPDATE

Minutes for SUSY's board meeting on: October 22nd, 2003

At 6:30, Alex motions to open the meeting, Hannah seconds. All vote in favor.

Alex Damron tells a truly terrible joke at which the board gives a courtesy laugh (except for Anna Saelem who flat out says that it was not laughable).

Steven Opper gives divar torah about the wall that is being built between Israel and Palestine. He says that this is no different from the division of Mexico and the U.S.
not everyone agrees, so everyone agrees to disagree, and we move on.

Ruthie reads requirements for "chapter of excellence" which she acquired from Shulie at LTI. some of them are as followed: 1) 3 events with 80% of membership show up
2) All board members of Hechel, 613 and hechalutzim 3) 8th graders invited to at least one event 4) 4 Israel programs 5) 5 news letters out (Jaime coughs loudly to indicate that its not her fault that people did not give her articles) 6) flyers for every event 7) 15% membership increase minimum and 8) one inter-chapter event.

At this point in the meeting Hannah Edber blesses us all with her presence and apologizes for being late. She then launches right into talking about how she is going to get together with Hazzan Alper to talk about us possibly tutoring bar and bat mitzvah students. Everyone loves the idea.

Malcolm Naftulin thanks the board for a good simchat torah and talks about the profit we made for selling parking spaces. (Jeffery brodofsky apologizes for not being able to be there and goes into details about the car accident that night, the board says "awwww, poor Jeff!).

Ryan Brodofsky (one of our three frosh reps) talks about a Political Jewish humor thing called "Capital Steps" that will be going on, he promises to get dates and get back to Alex.

Alex mentions that international USY awareness week ends DURING fall kinnus (opportunities for LOTS of programming on the topic)
-Steven Opper claims that he wasn't actually on pilgrimage, and he just followed the USYers around on a donkey. Everyone laughs.

Alex talks about the Malaciant Prime Minister's anti-israely comments. The board all vote to take petitions to school and send them to Jews to get signatures aposing it.

Ryan Brodofsky motions to sell krispy kremes at midrasha, Anna Salem seconds, board votes in the affirmative.

It is now Jaime's turn to rant about Her new creation of the "Scarlet I". (the I stands for Irresponsible, and the board members who have not turned their articles in to Jaime on time must wear a big Red laminated "I" on their shirt for the board meetings). The fact that Jaime was so excited about her idea of humiliating people into being punctual made the board hate it even more.

Steven talks about Ragalia. He is going to contact his cousin (who also makes handcuffs... hmmmmm) to provide us with less expensive ragalia.

Ruthie reminds board that shop Israel is coming up.

She also tells us about the Fall Kinnus dance theme (Eilat Paradise, woohoo!!!).
-Ruthie breaks up board into committees (food and decorating).

Alex reminds board that they still need to plan Frosh kidnap and to make a million calls to sell cookie dough, so he motions to close meeting, and Malcolm seconds.
Meeting ends at 7:43.

Jaime's favorite quote of the meeting: (Miriam Roth sees rachel eating something) and asks "ARE YOU EATING CREAM CHEESE???" (it was potato salad).