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Jewish Long Beach and Alpert Jewish Community Center will be merging to become a single agency, and will be addressing any community questions at a virtual town hall on May 5. According to Zachary Benjamin, chief executive officer of Jewish Long Beach, this merger has been under consideration for the past couple years, but the pandemic sped up the process.
“These are two organizations whose missions are complimentary, that share a physical space, that serve many of the same constituents, so there’s no reason why there should be firewalls between them from a staff standpoint, and from a government standpoint that would possibly impede the ability for the organizations to carry out their mission,” Benjamin said.