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The USCJ is struggling to deliver on last year's promises. <a href="images/TBS/bulletins/10junbul.pdf" mce_href="images/TBS/bulletins/10junbul.pdf"> This is the June 2010 Strategic Planning Update from Rabbi Wernick This is the report of the consultant, Ukeles Associates, Inc A Summary Profile: the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism This is the current USCJ Vision and Mission Statements This the new Draft Vision and Mission Statementand finally below is an analysis of the above by Ira Fink of Beth Sholom B'nai Israel Manchester, CT, as posted to the Google Bonim group.USCJ has finally come out with the draft of the new Mission and Vision Statement, and the Profile that has taken months to create.  I have attached copies of both, in case you have not received them from USCJ yet.There is absolutely nothing new here.  The mission and vision statement is just gobbledygook-a rehash of the old mission statement with no real meaning or direction.  It…

YouTube removed the original video after more than 3,000,000 views. The copies below are from three different sources. If one gets censored, try another.The lyrics are below the last video. Click triangle to start. There comes a time When we need to make a show For the world, the Web and CNN There's no people dying, so the best that we can do Is create the greatest bluff of all We must go on pretending day by day That in Gaza, there's crisis, hunger and plague Coz the billion bucks in aid won't buy their basic needs Like some cheese and missiles for the kids We'll make the world Abandon reason We'll make them all believe that the Hamas Is Momma Theresa We are peaceful travelers With guns and our own knives The truth will never find its way to your TV Ooooh, we'll stab them at heart They are…

JTS Chancellor Charting New Course For Outreach Eisen aims beyond Conservative movement to ‘religious center.’ Call it chutzpah or commitment — or a combination of both. Even as the Conservative movement is losing members left (to the Reform) and right (to the Orthodox), literally, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary is setting his sights not just on survival, but on expanding the school’s focus, “carefully but boldly,” throughout North America. Arnold Eisen, completing his third year in his post as head of the educational and spiritual center of the movement, is launching a campaign to roll out “a new JTS mission that defines our purpose and sets our future direction,” with an emphasis on “learning, leadership and vision.” Considered too low-key until now by some critics, he plans to enlarge his duties as a spokesman for “what Judaism has been and can be,” and take on the mantle of…

For Joel (Yoel) Chasnoff, “a skinny Jewish kid from Chicago (as he is described in his book’s subtitle), joining the Israeli Army for one year might seem counterintuitive: He was 24 years old, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he acted in the all-male Mask and Wig Club dressed in drag. He was a left-leaning, lactose-intolerant peacenik who passed out when he saw blood. Still, there was his strong sense of Jewishness, nourished in a Conservative home and day school--where he met his first Israeli, a teacher whose love of the country infected him--and family and youth group trips to Israel. Finally, there was Dorit, a Yemenite-Persian Israeli and Israel programs director at the Brooklyn College Hillel, where Chasnoff was hired to perform stand-up comedy. When Chasnoff realized he might one day want to spend his life with Dorit in Israel, he knew he first had to serve…