“Do moms and dads of 7-year-olds know whether they want their kids to lead the Jewish community?”
…do the soul-searching and idea-wrestling that lead you to a concept. Use that concept...
Category Archives: Jewish Organizations
“…if the theme of sorts for Jewish organizational life over the past 10-12 years was “innovation”, the next big theme should be “mergers and acquisition”
I strongly believe that, if the theme of sorts for Jewish organizational life over...
“The reasons that the federated and legacy systems have been teetering are not simply size, but about capacity to pivot into trends, a weakness that innovative organizations have exploited effectively”
As we are all aware, the good processes of innovation – which changed communal...
“The central challenge facing the process towards M&A in the Jewish ecosystem is money…”
The central challenge facing the process towards M&A in the Jewish ecosystem is money,...
“Jewish nonprofit professionals have stood on the sidelines and watched philanthropic dollars go to those who have shown the least interest in the Jewish project”
For too long now, foundations and federations have thrown themselves at the unaffiliated, the...
“I’m tired of the reduction of Jewish journalism to a celebration of ethnic tics”
The most important subject facing the American Jewish community is the new financial and...
“Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own,…they, in turn, will want to serve our people”
Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own...
“The best part of Chabad’s site is that it appeals to all ages”
By the mid-1980s, computers had been introduced to the average home; they had also...
“Students do not take well to ideological force-feeding…”
Of course, the Berkeley Hillel, like all Hillels, is not an island of groupthink...
“There is too much political anger on university campuses today, too little robust debate, too much suppression of robust debate about Israel, too much degrading of First Amendment principles and too much latent and overt anti-Semitism”
There is too much political anger on university campuses today, too little robust debate,...