NAJEX looks to the future
THE New South Wales Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (NAJEX) voted unanimously on a historic constitutional change last Sunday.
THE New South Wales Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (NAJEX) voted unanimously on a historic constitutional change last Sunday.
For the first time, membership is to be opened up to those in the under-18 age bracket, while NAJEX will also associate itself with other organisations from both the Jewish and wider communities.
It is NAJEX’s first constitutional change since 1947.
President Warwick Abadee said the changes were being made with the future in mind.
“The whole objective of this is to build on the enormous strength that we’ve had over the years, and to take ourselves forward into the future in a positive way,” he said.
“We’re a strong organisation, at the moment we’ve got about 140-150 members.
“We are very well served, and we’re also in a strong financial position to move ahead in a number of ways which have been denied us for some years because of this old constitution, which we’ve realised for sometime is out of date.”
Abadee stressed the significance of the change allowing junior members to join NAJEX.
“That’s where the future lies for any organisation,” he said. “It’s where the like of the RSLs and so on have had to change their way of thinking, because you can’t just live in the past: you can take pride in the past but you’ve got to look to the future.
“And that’s precisely what we’re doing.”
He said the new constitution had involved considerable input from various community lawyers and members of the NAJEX board of directors.
It was adopted unanimously at NAJEX’s annual general meeting last Sunday, February 12 at the Sydney Jewish Museum.
“It will be moving forward rapidly,” Abadee said.
“We’re very excited about what we’re doing, and we’re opening up as I say to the world in a much bigger way.”
GARETH NARUNSKY
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