As this arrived on my email on March 20, I first assumed in was a brilliant Purim shpiel. It wasn't.
This speaks for itself...or, perhaps, it doesn't:
This speaks for itself...or, perhaps, it doesn't:
I am so old that I remember the days when the Young Leadership Cabinet was engaged in substance; when it stood for something...oh, the hell with it.
"Chevre,
Its official…Cabinet Calm is coming to Estancia La Jolla!!!! Join us for a weekend of mindfulness and wellness in Southern California!!! Spouses and alumni are encouraged to attend.
Dates - Thursday, May 30-Sunday, June 2.
Registration Cost - $600/person (not including the hotel room) payable to Lindsay Sasha David via Venmo or PayPal (email - wiwizzy18@gmail.com). Registration includes – breakfast all three mornings, two lunches, cocktail hours all three evenings and Shabbat Dinner. The program will include fitness/wellness activities as well as group meditations.
Please contact the hotel directly to book a room in the block. We have a discounted room rate with a discounted resort fee. Hotel rooms must be booked by April 29, 2019 to get into the room block.
RSVP directly to Lindsay Sasha David to confirm your interest or if you’d like to learn more about the program.
See you in La Jolla! #lsdproduction
I'm speechless.
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Having been to two of the TribeFests, here are some observations...
1) Just merely having a Shabbat dinner does not make it an event with Jewish content
2) Paying money to a third party's personal PayPal account?
3) They left out "there will be no solicitation of funds."
Received a reminder that registration for this thing is ending -- act now, or some such. Question: did JFNA sell its Cabinet mailing list for a for-profit event? What is the purpose of the Cabinet today? Any?
A $600 Registration Fee payable to a private person + a three night hotel stay (at what, $200/night) plus meals and, for some, air fare. Who authorized this? Why?
First, important to note: meals and cocktails are included in the $600 Registartion Fee.
Then, as the E-vite Reminder stated in a footnote:
"Cabinet Calm is planned and self-organized by National Young Leadership Cabinet Chevre."
The questions posed above resonate: who authorized this thing...and, WHY?
Question that an attorney might opine on: If inappropriate behaviour occurs at this gathering, which appears to be a private venture with JFNA blessing, where does liability lie?
So sad that we are outsourcing and privatizing so many of the processes of organized Jewish life.
To Bob Hyfler:
The "gathering" itself is inappropriate, unworthy of the Cabinet, the Federations yet consistent with an orgabnization with neither purpose nor values.
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