The un-dynamic duo just released their WJC election platform. The agenda of the platform is so old that Israeli scientists are having a hard time carbon-dating it. Matthew Bronfman should know better and can do better. Maybe he needs to switch running mates before realizing that, despite his good intentions to fulfill the commandment of honoring ones father, he actually discredits further the family name by being a willing accomplice in this charade. ’
Hey, anyone see Mendel Kaplan’s election platform yet? ….Exactly.
Scroll down to Einat’s writings and taste the sweetness of vision, something that money and power and political pressures just doesn’t seem able to buy.
I’m off to the States. U.S. cell is 617 899 3282.
http://www.forward.com/articles/let-the-wjc-live-up-to-its-name/
Let the WJC Live Up To Its Name
Opinion
Einat Wilf | Wed. Jun 06, 2007
In the Jewish world, as elsewhere, old structures are cracking in the face of new challenges. Most of these structures, unable to adapt to a new age, will break and be overtaken by new ones now being devised in the minds of young activists sitting in cafés in the world’s major cities. A select few will succeed in adapting and transforming themselves, privileged to continue writing an illustrious history in a new century.
The World Jewish Congress has the potential to be one of those select few. From its current crisis, it may yet turn to make the leap from an organization that some have already written off and others ignore to one that is at the forefront of the Jewish world — and perhaps also of this new world that is still struggling to figure out the shape of things to come.
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