Monday Mar 24, 2008
Posted by Gidi Grinstein
Is Israel suffering a crisis of leadership? For many, the long list of politicians and public servants under investigation gives a clear positive answer. I argue that our current crisis is not a crisis of leadership; it's a crisis of trust between the general public and the elected officials chosen to exercise authority. The distinction is essential for designing the remedy.
Ronald Heifetz of Harvard University defines authority as conferred power to perform a service. Authority rests on the contract between the authority figure and his or her constituents. It is given and can be taken away.
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A Link in the Chain
Founder of the prestigious Reut Institute, Gidi Grinstein, blogs about his vision for Israel and 21st century Zionism.
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Joseph, New York City, USA: In the past, Jews brought their tithes on the pilgrimage holidays. Perhaps it is time to revise this idea. Israel has become a developed nation and is past the point of just getting checks in the mail. If going to Israel every pilgrimage holiday is too much, Diaspora Jews could fly there every few years to visit the institutions they support. The travel costs could come from a family's vacation budget instead of the charity budget so worthy causes still get the full tithe.
Galit: While you are waiting for american jews to give and give maybe you have seen to utter lack of commitment and connection many of these mega wealth american to Israel and jewishness and judaism, if fact the american jewish prime idea has been to assimilate and noone has benefited from that idea more than the mega wealthy jews, when these jews give they give all or most of their money to non jewish related charities like hospitals and medcial research and the younger mega wealthy jews give great sums to leftist and pro arab organizawealthy jews die their non jewish spouses get their money.
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