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Tensions between lay and
professional leaders at the na-
tional Jewish organizational
level seem to be increasing.
Dr. Daniel Thursz is retir-
ing in December after 11
years as executive vice presi-
dent of Bnai Brith
International.
Thursz told The Jewish
News that he has found the
job fulfilling but very deman-
ding. "It has taken its toll," he
said, and he is considering
returning to teaching or go-
ing into the consulting
business. Prior to his appoint-
ment at Bnai Brith, he was
dean of the School of Social
Work and Community Plann-
ing of the University of
Maryland.
Thursz said the decision
was his and that he had been
considering it for some time,
but observers say it has been
an open secret that the
58-year-old Thursz was on the
losing end of a power clash
with Seymour Reich, the lay
president of the international
organization.
Insiders say that Reich
wanted an executive who
would follow his directives; a
key issue was Reich wanting
greater involvement in the
discussion of salaries of Bnai
Brith employees.
In recent months Reich,
who was elected this year, has
also pressured the organiza-
tion's publication, The Bnai
Brith International Jewish
Monthly, to focus more on
Bnai Brith news and activ-
ities, and less on stories of
general Jewish interest.
The Bnai Brith turnover
comes close on the heels of a-
more public power struggle at
the American Jewish Com-
mittee where the executive
vice president, Dr. David Gor-
dis, was fired by the lay presi-
dent of the organization.
Tensions between lay and
professional leaders have
always existed in American
Jewish organizational life,
but these recent episodes —
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, once a bastion of
stability, has now had four ex-
ecutive vice presidents in as
many years — call into ques-
tion the very nature of
lay-professional relationships.
The old axiom has been
that the stronger the profes-
sional staff, the stronger the
organization. Dr. Michael
Berenbaum, who teaches at
Georgetown University, re-
cently noted that three of the
most effective national
Jewish organizations in the
country — AIPAC, the Simon
Thursz: victim of a power clash?
• Wiesenthal Center, and the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations - — are run by,
and most identified with,
their powerful professional
leaders, Tom Dine, Rabbi
Marvin Hier and Rabbi Alex-
ander Schindler, respectively.
"Lay officers exercise an im-
portant but clearly secondary
role," said Berenba -ura.
But it was not always so.
Prior to World War II, na-
tional Jewish organizations
were best known for their
-forceful lay leaders, from
Jacob Blaustein of the
American Jewish Committee
to Rabbi Stephen Wise of the
American Jewish Congress.
The emergence of trained
social work professionals
after the War saw Jewish
organizations taking a more
low-key, less confrontational
stance. Trained to develop
and promote lay leadership,
the professional staffers
played a behind-the-scenes
role while helping to build
their organizations.
In recent years, some profes-
sional leaders were taking a
more public role as spokes-
persons for their organiza-
tions, leading to tension when
lay presidents saw this as
their domain.
Dr. Irving Levine of the
American Jewish Committee,
a seasoned observer of Jewish
communal life, says we may
be witnessing now a byprod-
uct of "the fact that Jewish
action has become more
public, and lay leaders want
to compete for the limelight."
He sees in the growing
popularity of Jewish PACs, for
example, "a return of high-
powered lay people to Jewish
life.