tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post3673283945764445121..comments2023-07-27T04:33:11.719-05:00Comments on UJ Thee and Me: A MASSIVE BREACH OF TRUST...Gracklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14315763008609379449noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-67847733275535149262015-06-20T12:25:56.409-05:002015-06-20T12:25:56.409-05:00Richard, You are extremely picky. You expect this ...Richard, You are extremely picky. You expect this group of so-called "leaders" to adhere to a set of values these people don't even understand or are willing to totally ignore. If this is leadership, we are in the sorry sorry state you have described. Maybe you don't realize it but a large group of Chicagoans hold major leadership positions within JFNA, the IAN and within the Large City Executives. Why don't you identify them and see if you can get them to lead out of this mess and into a value-driven organization. Or don't they care either?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-37422533633873897162015-06-19T09:54:02.434-05:002015-06-19T09:54:02.434-05:00I would very much like to --- please tell us more....I would very much like to --- please tell us more.RWEXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01583858140298821830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-53874549412883433632015-06-19T09:54:01.129-05:002015-06-19T09:54:01.129-05:00I would very much like to --- please tell us more....I would very much like to --- please tell us more.RWEXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01583858140298821830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-38187711315562570842015-06-19T05:33:02.355-05:002015-06-19T05:33:02.355-05:00Richard you should look at the powerful work the N...Richard you should look at the powerful work the NY and LA Feds are doing in Israel to help heal the people independent of JFNA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-49879134055282460312015-06-18T20:21:59.791-05:002015-06-18T20:21:59.791-05:00To the second anonymous: JFNA did not use outside ...To the second anonymous: JFNA did not use outside professionals to go into Houston. In fact from what I know about the situation JFNA had nothing to do with it. I believe the exec in Houston called Feinberg directly and he went to help independently with the blessing of ORT. In fact, I would not be surprised that JFNA never knew he was there unless someone in Houston alerted them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-77755797159679736052015-06-18T19:08:54.766-05:002015-06-18T19:08:54.766-05:00Thanks for the cite to Richard Friedman's op-e...Thanks for the cite to Richard Friedman's op-ed. I will be including references to this very piece in further Updates next week.RWEXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01583858140298821830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-47638429216577322272015-06-18T16:03:11.919-05:002015-06-18T16:03:11.919-05:00Not entirely related, but you recently blogged abo...Not entirely related, but you recently blogged about JFNA's use of outside professionals to do their work (i.e. Houston). I thought you'd like to see what Richard Friedman is "proudly" touting:<br /><br />"Though I've been a journalist for 40 years, the best writing being done these days at the BJF is coming from 25-year-old staffer Samantha Dubrinsky. Sam's extraordinary reporting from Ukraine this week has generated widespread feedback including this email from our national agency Jewish Federations of North America: "Might Samantha be available to travel and speak in some of our Federation communities about her experience in Ukraine? We are intensely raising financial support for Ukraine's Jews and Samantha's stories might be a credible, powerful way to raise the needed funds."<br /><br /> I see it as another failure of being able to produce for the system. "Hey, we don't have to work. We'll let others do it for us and then call it our own."<br /><br />PS Really? JFNA is "intensely raising financial support..."? Really!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-68933584162662018942015-06-18T11:37:27.294-05:002015-06-18T11:37:27.294-05:00I don't know if we are talking about theft but...I don't know if we are talking about theft but we are definitely talking about ignorance: ignorance of Israeli society and ignorance of how American Jewry relates to Israel. This is true with, some increasingly powerless exceptions, to the pro's at 25 Broadway, their clueless laity and CEO, and the person, living in her own bubble, who manages JFNA affairs in Israel. It is an educational failing as we in NA and our interlocutors in Israel have never gotten to know each other. Unfortunately it will play itself out as farce and tragedy on college campuses where we and brother Shmuley and Uncle Sheldon will divide and alienate a generation of American Jews. The Negev will survive. But Diaspora Jewish relations is heading for a fall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com