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It's shaken by the discussion, and deliv- certainly not something you expect to ered a passionate defense of the feder- find at the G.A. Gone are the days ation that I truly understood the pro- when Israeli leaders traveled to the found nature of what we heard. It's United States to implore us to support rare that a man of his stature, in front Israel in its unprecedented struggles of such a large crowd, would open up and global opportunities. No longer are we united by wars and rescue cam- and share the level of disappointment he must have felt. It was an intensely paigns. Gone are the days when we human and honest moment involving could sit together in a plenary with a leader I deeply respected. It was a 5,000 other Jews and feel inspired and united by a sense of common purpose. prelude to what would follow. Later in the day, at a session called In its place, we live in a fragmented "Rebels with a Cause a panel of world where the United Jewish Generation X social entrepreneurs Community system struggles to main- unabashedly challenged the UJC to tain the core value of communal adjust its culture. In a barrage of ideas responsibility and the primacy of an and suggestions, a new generation unrestricted, annual campaign. demanded their place at the table. In such an environment, lacking a Aaron Bisman, the producer of crisis to unite us, how could the G:A. Matisyahu, challenged the community be inspiring? Somewhere in the midst to invest 10 percent of our campaigns of all the sessions and meetings, there in social, Jewish entrepreneurs. were moments of pure bravado. 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