JDCC welcomes aboard Eric Brody, a new member of our Board of Directors. Married to wife Jana and a resident of Santa Barbara. Eric has been a great supporter of JDCC and was one of the leaders of last year's Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services. Unlike his deaf brother, David who attended a school of the deaf, NTID and Gallaudet, Eric himself was mainstreamed but in recent years has learned sign language. He is currently employed as a Computer Network Technologist for the Graduate Division at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

JDCC News also welcome Karen Rothschild on board. She will help with profiles on Jewish Deaf Business owners...

If you do not have a car, or can not drive in the dark to attend JDCC's Seder this year, please contact us. We do not want you to stay home alone just because you don't have a way joining us. Please get in touch with us so we can help coordinate transportation.

A big thanks to Rabbi Paula L. Reimers and members of Burbank Temple Emanu El, a Conservative Temple in Burbank, who has been generous in allowing us to host our fourth annual Community Seder at their temple this year. They have also allowed Edmond Guenoun of Elegant Catering, who did our Seder for the past three years at Beth Jacob Congregation, to do it again this year.

Liz Kurs, our Young Adults Corner staff writer, has left us to concentrate on her last year of High School as its her Senior year and her hands are quite full. She is also the Editor of her school's Newsletter. We want to thank her for the wonderful columns and we sure will miss you. We wish you the best of luck. If anyone is interested in doing this Young Adults Corner column, please contact us.

JDCC has a wish to make this month: we need a scanner for the Macintosh computer... is there anyone out there who can contribute or donate?