[eJP note] This post, originally published February 25, 2010, is part of the series 28 Days, 28 Ideas - a joint project of seven media partners, including eJewish Philanthropy, that ran during February 2010. Contributed by The Sisterhood Blog @ The Forward, it is republished today in recognition of International Women's Day. by Joanna Samuels The Jewish community rightly holds its leaders responsible for managing complex organizational … [Read more...] about Hold Jewish Leaders Accountable for Gender Equity
28 Days, 28 Ideas
Operation Shalom: A Call to Unify the Jewish Community
Operation Shalom . . . A Call to Unify the Jewish Community As Jews, we often claim to want to make a commitment to building community. There is no doubt in our minds that we are at a crossroads where so many people around the nation and the world, and especially in our very own communities, need connections with other Jews. The devastating earthquake in Haiti has brought such a strong wave of attention and charitable support across the globe, … [Read more...] about Operation Shalom: A Call to Unify the Jewish Community
And Now for Something Completely Different: Inside the Box
by Robert Hyfler In order to think outside of the box you must first have a box to start from. The history of both scientific innovation and social innovation is the history of women and men who built on the progress of the past and took bold steps, at times incremental, at times radical, but always strategically developmental. Existing ideas and processes were challenged, re-cooked, reconfigured. Almost nothing, perhaps nothing occurs de … [Read more...] about And Now for Something Completely Different: Inside the Box
New Ideas from the Old World
Lisa Capelouto, Director of JHub - a London-based incubator that focuses on Jewish social action and innovation - presents a European perspective to the conversation about innovation, and looks at how the old world is learning from the new (and sometimes the other way around). For Jews in North America, Europe is often seen as repository of memory rather than a source of exciting innovative ideas. On the other hand we Europeans tend to look … [Read more...] about New Ideas from the Old World
WiseGen and the Great Transition
"He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be compared? To a tree whose branches are many, but whose roots are few; and the wind comes and plucks it up and overturns it upon its face. Rabbi Elazar ben Azarish (Perkei Avot ) “Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Hang around a board meeting of any Jewish organization long enough and one can’t help but think there is only one generation of … [Read more...] about WiseGen and the Great Transition
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