EMET 2020

the year 2020 began at Emmet with our usual excitement inspiration and desire to do what we always do at Emmet to touch the lives in the hearts of the image community college students young professionals young marrieds meaningful Chabot owns classes lectures meaningful trips all part of what Emmet does in order to accomplish this mission to inspire and bring up the lives of our students [Music] in fact we offered a new program an image tour connect a community based program in which members committee learned together with our students this combination of higher level learning for both men and women together with our campus outreach put em in a position where we were poised for one of our best years ever but then covet it and new word was introduced into our vocabulary social distancing and Emmett an organization that prides itself on real personal relationships how are we to respond to this how can we continue to sustain and support the growth of our students even though we couldn't be together with them but Emmet's swung into action we organized smoke with learning classes lectures discussions our staff of rabbis and teachers dedicated their days to one-on-one learning our students continue to grow continue to be inspired continue to receive the information that they needed to live passionate Jewish lives it was a challenging time but the mission of Emmett continued our work did not stop so Eman is important right now because right now you see people kind of straying away from their Jewish identity you kind of see people forgetting about like the Holocaust not as tough as I was at some point and it's gonna be more important as time goes on so we need to keep this going and it's something that people should take advantage of going on the Poland trip going on the Arizona trip these are things that it's like a gift too it's it's pretty much a gift too because it helps you it brings you back to your Jewish identity what people should understand is that not you're not there just because you're in school and it's like some program that helps students learn about Judaism I think once you're an Emma you're an Emmett and they are there for you every step of the way I think even once you graduate school and you're done with schooling it's not even about schooling anymore it's just more of a personal spiritual connection that you have with them and you build a relationship that lasts forever and I can't even imagine stopping to talk about Emmett because it just became a part of me so I really appreciate them for that because they welcome you with open arms and that's what Emmett does they welcomed with open arms because Emmett is there to empower the people empower the religion not force them not force anything upon anybody and that's why I truly love Emmett now more than ever we need your support we need to part it together to ensure that we can continue educating and touch the lives and inspire the hearts of our students together we're confident that the work of Emmett the mission of Emmett will go forward in order to secure the Jewish tomorrow [Music]