Posts Tagged: Jewish Leadership
An Action Plan for a New Jewish Leadership
The chickens have come home to roost. Years of neglect and misguided policies by mainstream Jewish leaders have helped enable a shocking surge of Jew-hatred...
The Mark of True Leadership
This week, we were offered two demonstrations of leadership in the face of adversity -- and they could not have been more different. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister...
Bridging the Gap Year: Hevruta Program Forges Israeli-American Bonds
JNS.org - Eighteen-year-olds have a habit of forming close, family-like relationships with each other. It's rare, however, that Israeli and American teenagers living thousands...
Christian Giving Provides Lifeline for ‘Abandoned’ Ukrainian Jewish Community (INTERVIEW)
Since the outbreak of violence and political chaos in Ukraine, Christian charity has been lavished on the country's beleaguered and isolated Jewish community, Rabbi Yechiel...
Jewish Law Provides Vision and Detail
Our parsha (Bible portion) takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot (Exodus), we have been carried along by the sweep and drama...
The Courage Not to Conform
Leaders lead. That does not mean to say that they don't follow. But what they follow is different from what most people follow. They don't...
From Academia to the Real World: Making Jewish Research Have an Impact
JNS.org - Effective Jewish education doesn't just happen. Strategic planning, smart use of resources, and proper implementation all play a role in educating today's Jewish...
Who is a Jewish Leader?
The sedra (Bible portion) of Shemot, in a series of finely etched vignettes, paints a portrait of the life of Moses, culminating in the moment...
The Role of Religion
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently released a global study of religion whose findings have appeared in newspapers and social media everywhere....
Ignorance, Hypocrisy and Double Standards
I was more saddened than angered when I learned that the North American Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism condemned Israel's plans...
Defiance, Then Destruction: Chanukah in the Warsaw Ghetto
"Never before in Jewish Warsaw were there as many Hanukkah celebrations as in this year of the wall." That entry from the diary of Hebrew educator Chaim Kaplan...
Leaderless
People love taking credit for creating revolutions, but are not always fast to own up to long-term solutions, as we learn from Proverbs 28:2: "When there...
Elan Steinberg: A great Loss to the Jewish World
Elan Steinberg, the former World Jewish Congress executive vice president, died last Friday in New York at 59. Steinberg was one of the greatest political strategists...
Breaking the Habit
Sometimes you find yourself dangerously close to a piece of cheesecake. It inches even closer to you, begging to be eaten. "I can't...
