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| April 2004 Highlights
Lay and Professional Leadership
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Whither the Professional and Lay Leadership?
A recent Sh’ma Round Table discussion on the lay and professional relationship brought the following communal leaders to the table to discuss the nature of the lay and professional Jewish leadership relationship: Bob Aronson, President of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit; Beryl Geber, Director of the University of Judaism’s
MBA Program; Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, Vice President and
Acting Director of the Wexner Heritage Program; Nate Levine,
Executive Director of the JCC in San Francisco; Arnee Winshall,
a Founder of the Jewish Community Day School in Newton, Mass.;
and Judy Yudof, President of the United Synagogue for Conservative
Judaism; The moderator, Carl Sheingold, is Director of the
Fisher-Bernstein Institute for Philanthropy at Brandeis University.
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| An Interview with A. B. Yehoshua
Embracing Conflict and Practicing Respect: A New Choreography: The first attribute of a great company is a leader who assembles
the right team and aligns them with the right task, directs the
team to confront the ‘brutal realities’ of the environment, and cultivates controversy within, letting the team debate constructively until the best ideas emerge.
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| A Interview with Edeet Ravel
We Need Leadership, Not Leaders : Of leaders, we have plenty; of leadership, properly understood, we have barely any.
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Sh'ma Book Reviews
An Ever-Revitalizing People?
Reviewed
by Dianne Ashton .
Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004) $35, 465 pp.
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| For
Sale: Living Words V: A Source Book on Israel in a Time of Struggle
A timely resource for rabbis, educators, and families to  address
the crisis in Israel. Included are High Holiday sermons, new rituals
for celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Responsa on the Prayer
for the Peace of Israel, essays and resource materials to teach
Israel in synagogues and schools.:
Available now www.Jflbooks.com
Foreword by Yitz Greenberg bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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