- To our Readers, thanks for writing us with your encouragement...and your criticism. We don't know about you, but we found the following "Comment" to be amusing:
"I am not questioning whether your blog has some merit. However, I cannot completely fathom why you have chosen to continue under this grandiose guise of anonymity...Anonymous blogging is the medium of choice for angst-ridden teenagers, not adults hoping to be taken seriously."
This Comment was sent to us by "Super." What irony!! Given "Super's" Comment that must be her/his real name!!! Thanks flagontheplay for your support!!
- In an article in this week's TIME profiling Bank of America's "President and CEO" offered this observation:
"I don't feel the need to be a dominant force through talking first of talking the most. That's not one of my needs. Listening can be a competitive advantage. Some people just can't do it."
Rob Mann, UJC's Training Chair always teaches us the importance of listening and hearing. To UJC's leaders, silence is just a void to be filled...by them. There is no voice they would rather hear than their own.
- Even in summarizing the system's achievements (press release incorporated in Rieger's January 16, 2008 View), UJC can't resist its apparent need to overstate -- for example, "...some 4,000 Jews from around the world gathered in Nashville for UJC's annual General Assembly. We were there, maybe 2,000 at an event scripted by UJC leaders alone that at its peak merited third page coverage in the Forward. National successes have been so few that our leaders continue to relate back two years to UJC's truly heroic work during the Katrina aftermath. A "...full study set to launch in February, 2008" is announced as an achievement of 2007 and predicted to "...be a turning point for the federation system." Nowhere does UJC disclose that this "study" will cost the system $845,000 -- now, the approval of that expenditure was quite the achievement!!
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Sorry, found a typo and while typos apparently are news, we wouldn't want the Forward to focus on any of those now would we?
You're welcome. You've inspired me to do something I've considered for months -- blog about the so-called organized Jewish world. (find it at http://organizedjewishworld-fotp.blogspot.com/). You guys are the UJC insiders, we're the federation system insiders. Maybe together we can fix the system before the uninspired groupthink, anchor to yesteryear and BS result in the system having to be burned in order to be saved. And that would be a waste.
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