THIS PAST SUMMER, PROPEL HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF HOSTING SOME INCREDIBLY IMPACTFUL EVENTS.
PROPEL kicked off the summer with an up-close conversation with Corie Adjmi, author of The Marriage Box. With women of all ages attending the event, interesting discussions ensued about Corie’s journey to become an author and aspects of her book. A special thanks to Adele and Eli Yedid for generously hosting the event.
PROPEL’s next event this summer was the annual boutique show, PROPEL MARKETPLACE, a 32-vendor supported marketplace of community women entrepreneurs selling jewelry, athletic wear, household products, clothing for children and adults, beauty products and so much more at the beautiful DSN Beach.
The Victoria Aronow PROPEL List is a free, digitized marketplace of women who sell food and other products, provide services or have a profession, including the vendors at the Marketplace. Please sign up and create a profile in order to be included in the digital directory. Get Listed! www.thepropellist.org/register/.
The next event brought us back to DSN Beach for the LET’S TALK DESIGN event under the PROPEL Entrepreneurs division, generously supported by Sharyn and Ezra S. Ashkenazi. A special thank you to Danielle Dabah for opening the program and discussing her career journey as an interior designer, and to our panelists — Jack Ovadia of Ovadia Design Group, Sarit Ovadia of The Finishing Touch, Jeanie Schrem of Kravet Textile Design, and Renee Mizrahi of RM Architecture Design — who each shared their professional journeys. The panel discussion was beautifully moderated by PROPEL’s Board President, Dr. Gayle Krost, and Board Member, Heleyne Mishan Tamir, to a standing room only group of participants. It was an inspiring evening!
Next on the summer calendar was TALK ABOUT IT TUESDAY for parents, educators and mental health practitioners under PROPEL’s Paulette Bailey/UJA Mentorship Program. The lessons explored there were invaluable as Dr. Jeff Lichtman, PROPEL’s collaborative partner at Touro University (Touro University Director of Graduate Jewish Special Education), and Minna Hanon Samra, school psychologist at Yeshivah of Flatbush, shared their views on the well-adjusted child, and the school/home partnership. Dr. Lichtman emphasized the importance of teaching children so they can become whatever they want to be; a child can grow and make a difference in this world. A special thanks to Ami and Ralph Sasson for generously hosting the event.
PROPEL greatly appreciates the support of the community members! It is donations from generous community members that help PROPEL fulfill its mission of providing women in our community the opportunity to improve their lives and the lives of their families through education, leading to greater financial stability. In the words of the Rambam, teaching a person a trade is the highest level of charity. It is these donations that continue to give, as community women continue to earn for many years to come.
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