“…that Jewish world doesn’t take enough risks. Professionals are scared of the rebuke of the lay people”
To Mr. Bronfman and every other member of self-declared Jewish royalty: Chabad doesn’t have...
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“…if we don’t tackle the quest for meaning in the Jewish world, at some point all of our programs are going to run out of steam”
I think reflection and ideas in the Jewish world today are devalued. We’re extremely...
“…the rabbi sometimes hears contradictory sounds — sometimes described as ‘the voice of the prophet’ or sometimes ‘the voice of the profit'”
…an ongoing struggle that many rabbis and clergy of various faiths wage within themselves....
“By focusing on the three things we do well, Jewish organizations can eliminate the redundancies, complexities, and challenges that…”
As we work to build more sustainable Jewish communities by connecting Jews to Judaism,...
“Most Jewish organizations…function and have value, yet we spread ourselves out over too many responsibilities”
Most Jewish organizations are a cable remote. We function and have value, yet we...
“It is our duty to do our utmost in restoring physical health, but it is sinful to ignore the most essential requirement of being a person…”
We care for the mentally retarded; what about the spiritually retarded? We extend relief...
“…it’s mystifying that in our American Jewish organizational culture, we have a huge web of information, but we have not successfully networked, tracked and sequenced our people enough”
…it’s mystifying that in our American Jewish organizational culture, we have a huge web...
“Israel engagement…must enlarge our educators, our Hillel directors, and our student leaders”
Israel engagement, in responding to this micro-crisis and in the work more broadly, must...
“We must ask ourselves: which behaviors, skills, and dispositions are we hoping to cultivate among young Jews, and how might they best be imparted?”
In addition to more funding and more personnel to expand projects of the pluralistic...
“…there is a strategic error already starting to emerge in the Jewish community’s predictable response to these concerns…”
School is back in session, and amidst all the excitement of new beginnings there...