Ema Shelcha
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Ema Shelcha AZA #2495, whose Alephs are also known simply as Emas is an Aleph Zadik Aleph chapter located in Agoura Hills, California where it serves the Conejo Valley, including: Agoura Hills, Westlake, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Moorpark, Simi Valley, and surrounding areas. It is one of twelve active AZA chapters in the Pacific Coast Region #43.
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Leadership
Ema Shelcha's chapter runs according to parliamentary procedure. The Chapter has a Godol (President), S'gan (VP of Programming), Moreh (VP of Recruitment), Shaliach (VP of Judaism), Mazkir (Secretary), Gizbor (Treasurer), and Kohen Godol (Past President). Leadership terms last 6 months, at which point leadership is re-elected.
Advisers
Ema alumni and UCSB grad student Dustin “Poseidon” Weissman took over as Ema’s adviser in August of 2008. One year later, Alumni Justin Rosenberg began acting as an unofficial adviser. Dustin then returned and is the current chapter advisor.
Meetings
Ema, like other chapters, has weekly meetings held every Monday night. The chapter comes together to discuss old and new business, hear reports given by chapter officers, and come together as a community once more.
Namesake
Ema Shelcha is Hebrew for ‘Your Mother’. The name is a throwback to AZA's cardinal principal, Filial Love, which is respect for ones mother and father. It is also a reference to "the Motherland", which is Israel.
Symbols
A chapter mascot of Ema Shelcha has the following requirements: (1) It must be a mother (2) She must be Jewish (3) She must have red hair
The chapters original mascot was Shelia Broflovski (Kyle's Mom) from South Park
Jane Jetson had been the chapter's mascots for several years. Jane Jetson was considered the perfect example to represent a chapter called your mother; June Cleaver appears on "The Non-Weekly Ema" publication
The week before Convention 2011 at an Ema Convention Planning Meeting, a motion was passed to change the chapters mascot to Lois Griffin from the Family Guy T.V. Series.
Ema's chapter colors are red and black
Sister Chapter
Ema Shelcha AZA's sister chapter is Echad BBG. Ema and Echad share a strong brother-sister bond and participate in a number of events together throughout the term.
Chapter Aleph Godolim
- 27): Edan Levanon
- Winter/Spring '11-'12: Eliran Hershko
- Summer/Fall 2011: Ethan Bidna
- Winter/Spring '10-'11: Ethan Banton
- Summer/Fall 2010: Ethan Banton
- Winter/Spring '09-'10: Paul Fox
- Summer/Fall 2009: Eliran Hershko
- Winter/Spring '08-'09: Michael Fienberg
- Summer/Fall 2008: Steven Sera
- Winter/Spring '07-'08: Michael Rich
- Summer/Fall 2007: Ben Iker
- 2003-2004?: Dustin Weissman
- 2002-2003?: Blake Heller
- 2001-2002?: Justin Flam
- 2001-2001?: Michael Lotan
- 2000-2001?: Alon Goren
- 1999-2000?: Adam Liebling
Charter Members
- Elon Amihud
- Dani Bar-Zion
- Adam Eisenberg
- Justin Flam
- Michael Gillman
- Yonatan Gorodenzik
- Alon Goren
- Blake Heller
- Casey King
- Adam Liebling
- Damon Liebling
- Benjamin Lotan
- Michael Lotan
- Nick Sonnenberg
- Adam Sigal
- Harrison Gillman
- Sumner Karp
- Brandon Grunberg
- about 10 more people - please add if you remember
Founders
- Michael Bliss
- Jeremy Bliss
