Senior global role for NCJWA officer
FORMER National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) president Robyn Lenn is set to take up a top-level position with the organisation's global roof body next month.
FORMER National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) president Robyn Lenn is set to take up a top-level position with the organisation’s global roof body next month.
At the quadrennial International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW) convention, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa from May 6-12, Lenn, NCJWA’s immediate past president, will be appointed vice-president representing Australia.
The Sydney-based piano studies examiner and mother of four, who has been with the NCJWA for 37 years, will wind up a four-year term as the ICJW’s community services coordinator, working with various regional constituent bodies on community projects.
A devotee of NCJWA’s “humanitarian approach”, Lenn told The AJN the organisation’s support activities for Russian Jewish immigrants in Melbourne, its “Mum For Mum” motherhood mentoring project in Sydney, and its one-on-one work with breast cancer patients, in addition to its work for Israel, are some of the reasons she continues her close involvement.
Eva Robey from NCJWA in NSW will take on the mantle of chairing the ICJW’s Asia-Pacific region.
A total of 13 NCJWA delegates will join representatives from 50 countries at the conference, to be themed “B’Yachad, Ubuntu, Together”, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ICJW.
The conference will see ICJW president Leah Aharonov stepping down, and Sharon Gustafson inducted as the new president.
NCJWA national president Rysia Rozen will deliver a report on the Australian organisation’s activities over the past four years, including the visit of Israeli lawyer and women’s rights activist Sharon Shenhav last month.
The ICJW has NGO observer status at the United Nations, promoting women’s and children’s rights worldwide.
PETER KOHN
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