April 15, 2004

Newton - Jewish National Fund hosted its first corporate breakfast at the Marriott Hotel. Guest speakers included Scott Harshbarger, JNF President Jay Pabian, Zone President Jeffrey Davis, Col. (Res.) Sharon Davidovich and event Chair Robert Cohan of Cohan, Rasnick Meyerson, LLP.

Harshbarger, past attorney general of Massachusetts and national president and CEO of Common Cause, spoke about how to manage the fundamental shift in culture after the accounting, investing and leadership scandals that rock corporate America.

Speakers at the March 16 event gave briefings on JNF projects in Israel including building communities in the Negev, alleviating the water crisis and building security roads along the border of Lebanon.

Paul Kline, chair of JNF Tree of Life Dinners, received a plaque for his outstanding commitment in helping raise over $200,000 for the Hatzeva Reservoir in Israel.

Guests included Robert Abrams, Arthur Ceder, Ken Davis, Mark Furman, Matt Gilman, JNF Vice President Ron Lubin, JNF Major Gifts Chair Todd Patkin, Joe Stone, Israel Economic Counsel Joseph Abraham, Jason Chudnofsky, Ronald Gluck, Dan and Fredda Gordon, Stephen Gunzburger, Aviva Sapers, Joseph Shulman, and Louis Yaffe.

For more information, contact Sharon Freedman (617-423-0999 or sfreedman@jnf.org).