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Table of Contents – Volume 86, No. 12

A Tradition of Innovation

Winter/Spring 2011. Volume 86, No. 1/2. Table of Contents:

A Tradition of Innovation: A Letter From the Guest Editors
    Jason Soloway and Ariel Groveman Weiner
I. The History
Inventing American Jewry
    Beth S. Wenger
The Myth of the New
    Dara Horn
Language, Identity, and the Scandal of American Jewry
    Leon Wieseltier
“Renew Our Days as of Old”: Innovation as a Metric of Jewishness
    Yehuda Kurtzer
The Life and Death of a Dream, Revisited
    Gary Rosenblatt
Response: Dreams That Cannot Die
    Hillel Levine
II. The Change Within
“Mainstream” vs. “Innovative” Jewish Organizations: How Different Are They?: A Study of Young Jewish Leaders in Los Angeles    
     Sarah Bunin Benor
What is Holding Us Back?: Barriers to Change and Innovation
    Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky
Innovation and Beyond: Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, and Systematic Change  
     Jonathan Woocher
Let My People Innovate: A Model for Change in Federations
    Alisa Rubin Kurshan and Alan Cohen
Engaging a New Generation: Hillel Innovates for the Millennials
    Wayne L. Firestone and Rachel L. Gildiner
Motivations for Innovations
    Naomi Levine
III. The Innovative Ecosystem
Building Jewish Community With Intentionality: The Cooperative Model    
     Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum
Helping Innovations Survive
    Aliza Mazor
Moving from Begging to Scouting: A Case Study in Building Volunteer Culture
    Rabbi Elie Kaunfer
IV. The Funders
Philanthropic Mission: An Interview with Edgar M. and Adam R. Bronfman
    Abigail Pogrebin
Federations and Foundations Take on Innovating and Sustaining: A Dialogue with Jeffrey Solomon and John Ruskay
    Noel Rubinton
Young Funders: To Innovate or Not to Innovate: That Is the Question
    Erica Schacter Schwartz
One Family’s Philanthropic Legacy: Charles R. Bronfman, Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, and Stephen R. Bronfman Talk About Philanthropy, Values and the Jewish Community
    Marge Tabankin
Funding Innovation: What Will It Take to Grow Impact?
    Adene Sacks
Young Leaders Becoming Leaders
     Will Schneider
V. The Values
Beyond the Melting Pot: Finding a Voice for Jewish Identity in Multicultural American Schools
    Adam R. Gaynor
Tail of Two Jewries: Some Innovative Lessons From Chris Anderson and Jewish Summer Camp
    Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow
Jewish 2.0: The Difficult Road to Internet Innovation
    Daniel Septimus
VI. The Professionals
Profiling the Professionals: Who’s Serving Our Communities?: Jewish Communal Professionals in North America: A Profile
     Steven M. Cohen
Introduction
     Misha Galperin

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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

Marge Piercy, Circles on the Water, 1982. ... See MoreSee Less