Comments on: Peril In Canada: Defend the Institute – CIJA Needs to Back CIJR yesterday (Updated II: Hecht Responds) http://hashmonean.com/2008/09/21/peril-in-canada-defend-the-institute-cija-needs-to-back-cijr-yesterday/ In Zion We Trust Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: neil http://hashmonean.com/2008/09/21/peril-in-canada-defend-the-institute-cija-needs-to-back-cijr-yesterday/#comment-98632 neil Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:26:10 +0000 http://hashmonean.com/?p=981#comment-98632 1) political correctness; 2) misuses of the media as evidenced by: the media's partiality and blatant interference in the outcome of elections; the continuous reporting of unproven theories as scientific fact; the overwhelming media support of a massive transfer of wealth to failed corporations and their rich executives who are being rewarded for their inability to manage the risk they assumed; and 3) any community, especially when it is controlled by a select few...  Are all devices used to control and turn human beings into sheep.  Kevakarat roeh edroh maavir tzono tachat shivto. Shana shel simcha, tova, ve chalcalah to all the free-thinkers in this world whatever be their ethnicity, creed, gender, orientation, age,  etc...  Happy to have met 2 such free-thinkers (Neuer and saus). 1) political correctness;
2) misuses of the media as evidenced by: the media’s partiality and blatant interference in the outcome of elections; the continuous reporting of unproven theories as scientific fact; the overwhelming media support of a massive transfer of wealth to failed corporations and their rich executives who are being rewarded for their inability to manage the risk they assumed;
and 3) any community, especially when it is controlled by a select few… 

Are all devices used to control and turn human beings into sheep.  Kevakarat roeh edroh maavir tzono tachat shivto.

Shana shel simcha, tova, ve chalcalah to all the free-thinkers in this world whatever be their ethnicity, creed, gender, orientation, age,  etc…  Happy to have met 2 such free-thinkers (Neuer and saus).

]]> By: saus http://hashmonean.com/2008/09/21/peril-in-canada-defend-the-institute-cija-needs-to-back-cijr-yesterday/#comment-98621 saus Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:05:31 +0000 http://hashmonean.com/?p=981#comment-98621 <p>Canada's smaller community benefits from a select group of top tier Jewish philanthropists that are very generous, they hold a great deal of sway over issues by virtue of that fact. One would hope that they also see the virtue of maintaining an ever growing crop of young actively involved Jewish canadians, something CIJR has excelled at over the years in developing. Professionals at PR only go so far, and developing new young Canadian passionate Zionists is not their strength. A strong vibrant community needs more than professional advertising campaigns to survive in the long term.</p> Canada’s smaller community benefits from a select group of top tier Jewish philanthropists that are very generous, they hold a great deal of sway over issues by virtue of that fact. One would hope that they also see the virtue of maintaining an ever growing crop of young actively involved Jewish canadians, something CIJR has excelled at over the years in developing.

Professionals at PR only go so far, and developing new young Canadian passionate Zionists is not their strength. A strong vibrant community needs more than professional advertising campaigns to survive in the long term.

]]> By: Irina http://hashmonean.com/2008/09/21/peril-in-canada-defend-the-institute-cija-needs-to-back-cijr-yesterday/#comment-98617 Irina Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:04:14 +0000 http://hashmonean.com/?p=981#comment-98617 None of this is surprising me as I was predicting that's how things would start going eventually years ago (and of course was immediately dismissed as too pessimistic). I know little to nothing about Canadian Jewish community, but I do know enough about U.S. Jews to say, that the Jewish leadership could do a much better job of bridging the divides between the Orthodox and the secular/Reform communities, the U.S. born Jews and the recent immigrants (who are only just now becoming more active in major American Jewish organizations, and mostly through individual case-by-case initiative rather than any organized outreach), conservatives and liberals, etc, etc. We are own worst enemies, because the disunity that appears in the papers, and the farcical interorganizational feuds only serve to ridicule us in the eyes of the rest of the country, and confirm some of the worst stereotypes about us. From your article, I see that it's no different in Canada. Obviously, not everybody can be expected to have the courage of a few strong-willed individuals who take the vanguard, but by now Jews should at least learn the basics of what constitutes their own interests. :( None of this is surprising me as I was predicting that’s how things would start going eventually years ago (and of course was immediately dismissed as too pessimistic). I know little to nothing about Canadian Jewish community, but I do know enough about U.S. Jews to say, that the Jewish leadership could do a much better job of bridging the divides between the Orthodox and the secular/Reform communities, the U.S. born Jews and the recent immigrants (who are only just now becoming more active in major American Jewish organizations, and mostly through individual case-by-case initiative rather than any organized outreach), conservatives and liberals, etc, etc. We are own worst enemies, because the disunity that appears in the papers, and the farcical interorganizational feuds only serve to ridicule us in the eyes of the rest of the country, and confirm some of the worst stereotypes about us. From your article, I see that it’s no different in Canada. Obviously, not everybody can be expected to have the courage of a few strong-willed individuals who take the vanguard, but by now Jews should at least learn the basics of what constitutes their own interests. :(

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