tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post7096527391717615294..comments2023-07-27T04:33:11.719-05:00Comments on UJ Thee and Me: UPDATESGracklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14315763008609379449noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-90284927457916573702014-03-11T06:03:45.666-05:002014-03-11T06:03:45.666-05:00Thanks for writing. If you let me know where I may...Thanks for writing. If you let me know where I may reach you, I have some referrals who can help you with your reading comprehension...among other thingsRWEXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01583858140298821830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-66400101793433796912014-03-11T00:19:38.248-05:002014-03-11T00:19:38.248-05:00Shame on you for sniping at this outstanding profe...Shame on you for sniping at this outstanding professional without knowing anything about her beyond what JFNA distributes. She is a finer person and leader than Wexler. Our communities lose top professionals when volunteers like Wexler get involved and thrive on vitriol and slander. No surprise that only the vicious and cutthroat succeed in such an environment. I'll take a 41-year-old with passion, creativity and talent over a bitter old has-been Federation retread any day of the week.<br /><br />Wonder why JFNA stinks? Look in the mirror. I guess that if you don't have anything nice to say, just write a blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-6835384030840841442014-03-08T08:14:35.057-06:002014-03-08T08:14:35.057-06:00To the last Anonymous:
I made my point poorly and...To the last Anonymous:<br /><br />I made my point poorly and apologize. You have made your points well.RWEXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01583858140298821830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-17624805700225751872014-03-08T08:02:24.888-06:002014-03-08T08:02:24.888-06:00I have been reading your blogs for years. at time ...I have been reading your blogs for years. at time with amusement, and at times with appreciation. I find your call out of the new federation exec uncalled for and unjustified. This professional leader brings to the table a committmnt to our field of Jewish communal service and has dedicated her life to our field of service. Isn't this what we are looking for in our search processes? A well qualified, proven communal professional we will now bring her skill sets and passions to an intermediate sized Jewish federation which has struggled to find continuity in its CEO position? For the record, she was not the chair of the search committee, she was not a vice chair of the federation board. She is an emerging star in the field who reinvogorate her new community based upon her years of training and experience in St. Louis and Delaware. Kol Hakovod to her new community for this hire. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-22390608257116085652014-03-07T20:24:46.408-06:002014-03-07T20:24:46.408-06:00I'm confused by your first bullet. on the new ...I'm confused by your first bullet. on the new federation CEO. Is your comment, "there must be a new definition of Jewish communal professional out there" meant to that a Hillel director is not a Jewish communal professional? Also, why delete her name if you're going to cite her entire bio? What am I missing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-77233172073886673132014-03-07T07:03:34.858-06:002014-03-07T07:03:34.858-06:00Re:Ukraine - isn't this what the core funding ...Re:Ukraine - isn't this what the core funding is for? Isn't this why it is important to have ongoing Annual Campaigns - so that we DON'T need an "emergency campaign" every time there is a crisis? Maybe - just maybe - we could have some consistency of message here. Maybe our system should have said we do NOT need an emergency campaign because your dollars given with love and devotion each year ensure that things like this are taken care of.<br />But, yes, let's always assume the worst, because what fun is there in defending our mission.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-29426183769740280982014-03-07T06:37:37.260-06:002014-03-07T06:37:37.260-06:00The note to leadership on the Ukraine emergency fu...The note to leadership on the Ukraine emergency fund should not have been "Leadership Briefing" but something more befitting jumping on a bandwagon. Federations had already been "Leading" by raising and allocating the funds. In case one or more of the readers of your blog did not receive the briefing it is included in full below with notes on each sentence or paragraph that I have added. 1. Title - Jewish Federations Announce Ukraine Assistance Fund <br />March 6, 2014 (When did they recognize that this was a crisis – two weeks after everyone else did?)<br />2. “As the situation escalates, needs in the Ukrainian Jewish community become even more acute,” said Michael Siegal, Chair of the JFNA Board of Trustees. “It’s critical that we maintain our commitment to provide assistance to the most vulnerable in our community and ensure our Jewish institutions are secure." (How exactly will they do this?)<br />3. The Executive Committee of The Jewish Federations of North America yesterday authorized the distribution of funds raised through our collective Federations to overseas agencies. (What exactly are collective federations? Since when does the federation need JFNA to authorize distribution of funds raised by a federation? How did the Executive Committee get that authority?)<br />4. The Ukrainian Jewish population, estimated at around 300,000, is one of the largest in the world. The area is already home to some of the world’s poorest Jews, and the currency devaluation and increasing economic uncertainty are affecting the entire community. (These are the reasons we need conduct an emergency campaign? The three partners (JDC, JAFI and ORT) have been dealing with these issues as ongoing business. The emergency has to do with the unrest in Ukraine causing unusual needs identified by the partners. I'm sure that the websites of the partners will tell us what those needs are for the "emergency" campaign. Why not list some of them in the briefing to leadership?)<br />5. JFNA is committed to working with its partners at home and abroad throughout this crisis. (How, By taking full credit for whatever the partners do with the funds raised by some other means?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565163061165974643.post-28225586848752815852014-03-07T06:17:23.991-06:002014-03-07T06:17:23.991-06:00More about the CEO at her last job. Here's wis...More about the CEO at her last job. Here's wishing her outsized success in Texas!<br />http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/motherhood-in-the-lean-in-era/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com