Messages from the Trenches

Friends of the boys/girls who are "the Blog" have written us from "inside" with comments on the sorry state of our "Disunited Jewish Communities." We can't print all of the comments we have received to date, but some strike us as particularly on point and all reflect the sorry state of what should be the "shining light on the hill."

A couple of examples:

• From a long-time professional -- "this leadership, lay and professional, has taken something magnificent and made it pedestrian."
• A long time student of our national institution from both inside and outside wrote: "[T]he unraveling of 'professionalism,' the centralizing of control, the resistance to the new realities in Jewish life regarding new organizations speaking to the young, the elitism of so-called leadership, and many more realities conspire to feeding the flames of growing irrelevance of the system as a whole."
• And, another: "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
• Finally: "To Rieger and Kanfer the only valid ideas are there's and there's alone. All others are irrelevant, poison not to be touched."

Nice.