Where have I been?

(This post was my first post since early January, but held until after our annual meeting on Sunday, January 22)

Now that I have picked up the blogging habit, I find that I miss it when my schedule doesn’t allow me the time to write.

Do not take my absence from the blogosphere to mean that nothing is happening at Beth Shalom. We are working at a furious pace to secure the funding we need for our reconstruction. That work is now more critical than ever. Although we knew there was a good possibility that our insurance coverage would be denied, we were hoping that we were misreading the signs. We weren’t. Our official notice of the denial of coverage came last week.

This was certainly unwelcome news, but as we have been planning for this possibility it does not change our strategy. The Renewal Fund Committee is moving forward with its fundraising plan. My part is to travel to selected Jewish communities around the country in order to tell the Beth Shalom Katrina/Rita story and solicit support.

The tracking software we use to monitor this blog’s readership tells us that it is being read across the country. If any of our readers have suggestions of communities to visit or people to talk to, please leave them as comments to this post. We welcome your assistance.