Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:27 AM

AMIT 2007 NATIONAL CONVENTION
At The Puck Building,NY NY
July 9th 2007

AMIT convened its 2007 National Convention at the landmark Puck Building in New York City.  Dr. Francine Stein, a resident of Englewood, New Jersey, and a pediatrician specializing in behavior/developmental pediatrics, was elected president of the organization.  Dr. Stein succeeds Jan Schechter of Lawrence, New York.  Her term will officially begin on September 1. 2007.

            Other national officers elected included Debbie Isaac; treasurer, Mindy Liebman, chair, Board of Directors, who also served as chair of  the 2007 National Convention; Barbara Nordlicht, chair, Board of Governors; Robyn Price Stonehill, chair, New Generation Board; Peggy Danishefsky, vice president, leadership development; Suzanne Doft, vice president, marketing; Brenda Kalter, vice president, financial resource development; Debbie Moed, vice president, Israel; Ina Tropper, vice president, strategic planning; Ellen Hellman, vice chair, Israel Executive Committee; Rahel Rogers, associate treasurer; and Sharon Merkin, secretary of the Board of Directors.

            Former New York State Governor George Pataki made a special guest appearance during the cocktail reception which proceeded the presidential dinner.  He lauded AMIT for the work it does in educating Israel’s youth.
                       
            Other convention speakers included Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project, who discussed the need for better communication of Israel’s point of view to the world’s journalists and media; and Scott Shay, chairman of the Board of Signature Bank, who discussed his controversial book, Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry.  Updates on the AMIT Network in Israel, which this fall will encompass more than 70 schools and programs for over 20,000 students, were provided by Dr. Amnon Eldar, director general of AMIT in Israel, and Arnold Gerson, executive vice president of AMIT.

            The 2007 National Convention was chaired by Mindy Liebman and Harriet Seif, assisted by a Convention Committee composed of Esther Goldman, Audrey Lookstein and Esther Semmelman.

AMIT enables Israel's youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values and Zionist ideals.

AMIT educates and cares for Israel’s youth, including the most vulnerable.  Some 70 per cent of AMIT students cope with educational, psychological, economic and/or social risk factors.  AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli society.  The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities.  Founded in 1925, AMIT operates more than 70 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs, constituting Israel’s only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies.

We at Liberty News Online Magazine like to thank Ms Barbara Goldberg ,Director of Communications, for AMIT for her kind invite,for more information about the organization feel free to log onto their website at www.amitchildren.org

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