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  Leadership
Leadership by those moved to action, by those who wish to make a difference, to change the way life is. We have to stop looking only to paid employees, functionaries, and start looking for leadership from the ranks, from lay people who are moved to make a difference, who are genuinely inspired.
We shouldn’t seek inspiration from Jewish communal and religious leaders who are in it for the power, the glamour, the wrong reasons, and we have to seek inspiration from the truly inspired.
Leadership is setting a standard for what an acceptable gift to a given charity is. Leadership is when Esther called for a three day fast and promised that vegam ani venaarotai atzum ken, that she too, the Princess herself would join in the fasting and prayer.
www.asbee.net /leadership.htm   (4080 words)

  
 Think-Israel
The true scandal is that the same Jewish leadership that failed to do their job found strength to oppose and sabotage the Bergson group when that tiny band was accomplishing what the Jewish establishment failed to do.
Jewish leadership failed to compile that story, widely publicize it, and then demand full public recognition from the administration.
American Jewish leaders, with only a few courageous exceptions, remained in blind support long after the rising Israeli death toll demonstrated that this was a road to war and not to peace.
www.think-israel.org /neuwirth.leadership.html   (4768 words)

  
 Judenrat
These councils of Jewish elders, (Judenrat; plural: Judenräte), were responsible for organizing the orderly deportation to the death camps, for detailing the number and occupations of the Jews in the ghettos, for distributing food and medical supplies, and for communicating the orders of the ghetto Nazi masters.
In the many cases where Jewish leaders refused to volunteer to serve on the Judenrat, the Germans appointed Jews to serve on a random basis.
Underground Jewish organizations sprang up in the ghettos to serve as alternatives to the Judenrat, some of which were established with a military component to organize resistance to the Nazis.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/judenrat.html   (381 words)

  
 Intermarriage and Jewish Leadership in the United States - Steven Bayme
Jewish leadership is entrusted with strengthening the collective Jewish endeavor.
The Jewish leadership's ultimate challenge is to recognize its responsibility for the collective welfare of the Jewish people.
When Jewish leaders address the mixed-marriage issue, they are concerned about the reaction of their own daughter-in-law, nephew, or wife.
www.jcpa.org /cjc/cjc-bayme-06.htm   (3783 words)

  
 Jewish Review: Presbyterian-Jewish ties worsening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jewish officials were particularly outraged at a passage in the issue's introduction that seemed to compare Israel to Mammon, a mythological figure associated with avarice and the pursuit of money.
Members of the Jewish coalition—the ADL, the AJCommittee, the American Jewish Congress, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements—wrote Makari a bitter letter on June 3, saying the reference was reminiscent of a dangerous brand of medieval Christian anti-Semitism.
Jewish officials were also offended by guidelines published in February by the Presbyterian Church USA on dialogue with Jews and Muslims which warn Presbyterians of Jews' "emotional rhetoric," which can introduce "an unhelpful level of guilt into the conversation."
www.jewishreview.org /Archives/Article.php?Article=2005-09-01-1593   (1220 words)

  
 WUJS - World Union of Jewish Students   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Leadership - of the highest quality - is the way to achieve that which we are all chasing.
Good ideas from Jewish student groups around the world can serve as inspiration for Jewish student leaders, and encourage the sharing and replication of ideas that worked all around the world, including Social Action ideas, and education ideas.
Jewish Publications WUJS have published a number of top calibre educational and leadership materials.
www.wujs.org.il /activist/leadership/index.shtml   (497 words)

  
 Portraits of leadership in the Valley
Leadership crisis or no, the Phoenix area teems with men and women committed to nurturing Jewish life here, whether as professionals or as volunteers.
Weitzenkorn, an organizational psychologist who specialized in developing leadership programs, says that the workshops are unusual in that they aim to address several populations at once rather than speak to them separately.
Richter, 33, spent a year with AIPAC prior to coming to the ADL, and was the director of the Young Leadership Division of the Jewish federation before that.
www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/050128/leadership.shtml   (2359 words)

  
 Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Harris, the son of Holocaust survivors and a longtime activist on behalf of Soviet Jewry who was arrested in Moscow for meeting with Jewish activists in 1974, became executive vice president of the AJCommittee in 1990.
Given his personal history, which involved working with Soviet Jewish refugees in Vienna and Rome in the late 1970s and acting as the principal organizer of a massive pro-Soviet Jewry rally in Washington in 1987, Harris was primed to respond when Goldmacher and Kliger came calling.
And he spoke of the urgent need for the Jewish establishment, beset by what he portrayed as apathy and defeatism on the part by many diaspora Jews, to bring hard-nosed Russian Jews into the center of the fray.
www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=9442   (1149 words)

  
 RECLAIMING JEWISH LEADERSHIP
In looking at classical Jewish leadership from Moshe to Shaul to David, one finds a trait common to them all that is missing in Yosef: All three of these great Jewish leader did not seek out leadership – on the contrary they avoided it.
Ideal Jewish leadership is what was seen during the time of the Shoftim, wherein human leaders only arose to meet a specific need - if and when the need was past, they went back into private life.
The truly Jewish politician who aims to provide moral leadership cannot succeed in the world at large (and it has been suggested that Yosef’s namesake, Joe Lieberman, is floundering in his campaign precisely because he is offering an overly moralistic and Yehudah-like approach to American politics).
www.tzemachdovid.org /ideas/idea41.html   (2370 words)

  
 Who Are We?
Only leadership motivated by an authentically Jewish vision will be capable of meeting all the challenges currently facing the State of Israel and the Jewish People.
Only leadership of this kind will be capable of reinvigorating the State of Israel and the Jewish People and leading it towards the realization of the vision of the prophets.
n 1998, Manhigut Yehudit (The Jewish Leadership Movement) was established as the successor to Zo Artzeinu.
www.jewishisrael.org /jewish_leadership/who.htm   (925 words)

  
 CHANUKAH: IGNITING THE TORCH OF LEADERSHIP
Many Jews no longer knew what it meant to be a Jew; they couldn't appreciate the ancient wisdom of their ancestors, and they didn't recognize the danger of tampering with the heritage that had enabled their fathers and grandfathers to survive the temptations of the material world for fifty generations.
Jewish unity, under the guidance of moral leadership, carried the day and preserved the nation.
Once upon a time the United States could boast of moral leadership: from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt to Harry Truman, the greatest leaders have often been unpopular in their own times for threatening to upset the status quo of comfort and complacency.
www.jewishworldreview.com /1200/leadership.asp   (611 words)

  
 Jewish Leadership Forum
Jewish Leadership is a forum for educational, political, institutional, organizational, and aspiring young Jewish leadership to discuss administrative issues of common interest.
Jewish Leadership helps top echelon community, synagogue, or public Jewish leaders or potential leaders discover that the same basic challenges and solutions exist throughout the world.
The Jewish Leadership forum is open to all Jewish leaders or future leaders, irrelevant of outlook or commitment.
www.geocities.com /jewishgroups/1JLeadership.html   (211 words)

  
 Jewish leadership - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the era of the Tanakh, leadership of the Jewish people was governed by Torah principles.
In the Hassidic movements, leadership is usually hereditary.
The body of Conservative rabbis is the Rabbinical Assembly, which maintains a Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_leadership   (1129 words)

  
 When Will 'Presbyterian' Cease to Be a Loaded Word? | The Jewish Exponent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Presbyterian "leadership has been hijacked by a radicalized" Palestinian Christian population that "represents a fraction of the Christian community in Israel," said Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, interfaith director for the Anti-Defamation League.
Members of the Jewish coalition - the ADL, the AJCommittee, the American Jewish Congress, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements - wrote Makari a bitter letter on June 3, saying the reference was reminiscent of a dangerous brand of medieval Christian anti-Semitism.
Jewish officials were also offended by guidelines published in February by the Presbyterian Church USA on dialogue with Jews and Muslims.
www.jewishexponent.com /article/783   (1013 words)

  
 HIR | How the mainstream Jewish leadership failed the Jews in WWII
But equally obviously, the Jewish leadership prior to and during World War II had an obligation to defend the Jewish people, and it must be held accountable for how it reacted before the threat of Jewish extinction.
The Jewish people will be attacked again: this is guaranteed, for it happens virtually every century, and as I write antisemitism is enjoying a dramatic renaissance all over the world while the Jewish state is quickly ceding territory to antisemitic terrorists pledged to the destruction of the Jewish people.
The Jewish people was being exterminated; compassion by Jewish leaders towards Hitler's Jewish victims cannot be construed as ‘double loyalty.’ The refusal of these leaders to act, and their sabotage of those who did defend the European Jews, was disloyalty to the Jewish people, and loyalty to the antisemites.
www.hirhome.com /israel/leaders1.htm   (8959 words)

  
 The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
The summit of 150 Jewish 20-somethings from all over America who will gather here in August to address what organizers consider the "recruitment crisis" of young Jewish leadership.
The summit is the last part of a three-piece research project funded by those philanthropists who examined Jewish leadership development across America.
Dobbs also said that they found there was a persistent undersupply of well-trained Jewish educators and professionals at mid- and entry-level positions, because people were repelled by the low status, low remuneration, heavy workload and absence of professional development involved in Jewish communal life.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=12480   (543 words)

  
 JewishLA.org: Synagogue Leadership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
With the Synagogue Leadership Institute, The Board of Rabbis of Southern California, together with synagogue and organizational partners, has developed and is now implementing a replicable model of innovative, collaborative Jewish leadership training for a group of future synagogue leaders.
The Board promotes and enriches Jewish learning and living by sponsoring programs of professional growth and development, community education, media relations, interfaith activities and chaplaincy visits to health care and penal institutions.
The Board of Rabbis is an agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and a beneficiary of the United Jewish Fund.
www.jewishla.org /html/synagogueleadership.htm   (266 words)

  
 www.JewishJobFinder.com: 1-2 Year Fellowship Opportunities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
AMITIM was established by the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta in 1996 and has since partnered with other Federations in the Southeast and with the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Participants are required to work for 3 years in their sponsoring Jewish education institution if they receive 2 years of funding; they are required to work for 2 years if they receive 1 year of funding.
DeLeT fellows are regularly engaged in inquiry focused on the interaction between Jewish and secular values in daily life as it relates to the integration of general and Judaic content, in the curriculum of the day school.
www.jewishjobfinder.com /Career_Development/fellowships.html   (4417 words)

  
 Center for Jewish History: Leadership
These vital years, marked by amazingly rapid change and inspiring growth, chart the transition from infancy to responsibility, and culminate in the child's entry into formal schooling and social interaction with his or her peers.
Spearheaded by the American Jewish Historical Society, with contributions from all the Center's other partners, this most ambitious exhibition of the American Jewish experience ever undertaken drew record crowds of thousands of visitors from across the world.
The youngest and fastest-growing major partner of the Center for Jewish History is the American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House, whose activities during the past years have mirrored the rapidly growing importance and visibility of the Sephardic community within American Jewry.
www.cjh.org /about/leadership.php   (337 words)

  
 Gens Tells Vilna Jewish Leadership About Aktion in Oszmiana
After two or three days the Jewish Police observed and reported to the Gebietskommissariat (in Vilna) that, first of all, the women whose men had been taken away last year were now working and could not be taken away, and, secondly, that there were no families with 4 or 5 children.
Rosenberg said recently that it is the task of the Germans to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.
The Jewish people saw no blood in the whole of the 2,000 years.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Gens1.html   (1125 words)

  
 .:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::.
Between 1890 and 1930, 100,000 Jews n 80 percent of the country's Jewish population -- immigrated to South Africa from five towns in Lithuania.
Nominated by synagogues and Jewish agencies throughout greater Stamford, the participants “have great potential for effective leadership, but have yet to serve in leadership capacities in the Jewish community,” says Eve Nachman, director of the new program.
To address a lack of Jewish teen programming, they funded activities at Temple Beth El after their son's bar mitzvah in the late '90s.
www.jewishledger.com /articles/2006/10/25/news/news03.txt   (867 words)

  
 UJA Bergen: JCRC Offers Leadership Opportunities in Community
JCRC fosters and promotes cooperation and understanding between the various Jewish institutions, the Jewish community and the community at large.
Forge productive links with the leadership of political, religious, cultural and ethnic groups in order to protect and advance the interests of our Jewish community in a democratic society.
It is dedicated to working for the welfare, security and vitality of the Jewish people, and the communities in which we live, both locally and worldwide.
www.jewishbergen.org /sociala/jcrc2.shtml   (790 words)

  
 TheRaphi.com - What is Jewish Leadership?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Therefore, the concept of Jewish leadership is fundamentally opposed to the quest for power.
Accordingly, authentic Jewish leadership would advocate decentralization power, as may be seen in the Torah’s system of governance.
The goal of authentic Jewish leadership is to educate and elevate the Jewish people that they may, by their words and deeds, sanctify the God of Israel.
www.theraphi.com /ppe/wijl.html   (670 words)

  
 UJA Bergen: Synagogue Leadership Initiative
Rabbi Sidney Schwarz is the founder and president of The Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, an educational foundation dedicated to the renewal of American Jewish life through the integration of Judaic study with social activism, civic engagement and tikkun olam, repair of the world.
Dr. Schwarz previously served as the executive director of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington D.C. He is the founding rabbi of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Rockville, MD where he now is rabbi emeritus.
A Ph.D. in Jewish History, Dr. Schwarz has been on the faculties of the University of Maryland, Temple University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
www.jewishbergen.org /sli/schwarz.shtml   (871 words)

  
 PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership & Values (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chicago, IL PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values is dedicated to the renewal of American Jewish life through the integration of Jewish learning, values, and social responsibility.
In Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World, Schwarz sheds light on the relationship between Judaism, social justice and the Jewish identity of American Jews.
In a fascinating portrayal of some of the major issues facing the Jewish community in the last fifty years, Schwarz explores a community torn between its instincts for self-preservation and its desire to serve as an ethical “light to the nations.”
www.panim.org.cob-web.org:8888   (310 words)

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