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April’s over! And Hopefully with it, the rain. Those of you who manage IT for your organizations will have patched your systems against the latest vulrabilities, helped Finance complete their End-of-Year tax submissions by now and updated all your software for this financial year’s payroll.
May looks like it’s going to be quite busy too. The Movement is running 10 weekly sessions as a Jewish response to the Financial Crisis, Jewish Journeys are organizing a trip to Paris , Lag b’Omer is on the 12th , Shavuot on the 29th and over in IT we are quietly upgrading our Help Desk, Contact Management system, Fundraising system, various websites as well as doing some serious research into facilities for our fieldworkers (more on that in a few months time).
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This document contains a wide variety of useful policies that can be used to provide consistency in practice. - Seder Resource - A4 Format
Pesach is not just about something that happened a long time ago. It is about what we are doing now. What will we speak out for and against, what actions we can take to further the Jewish values of the seder? We do not know what you are going to decide but we hope that this can give you some ideas. - Wedding Order of Service
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