You've been on the job a month
and doing your research for a few
months. Answer those questions.
We are now unpacking it all to say,
"Here is what we are going to do
about it."
It sounds like the answer is,"We
are not in a position to do that yet:'
You have to look at the federation
system, and everybody is at a differ-
ent readiness and everyone is at dif-
ferent places.
It's like from my apparel days. You
wouldn't sell shorts to Minneapolis
in December or January. But you sure
would sell a lot of shorts in Florida.
Everybody has their own tradition
and their own culture; not every fed-
eration is in the same place.
As the federation system, we need
to be able to look at and work in col-
laboration with the federations to
enable them to think about and sup-
port their thinking in looking at the
federation of the future.
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Are many ready to go forward?
After four weeks, I can't give you the
answer to that. I am not intimate
enough. I am saying that I believe that
at the federations, both before the eco-
nomic challenges and it was enhanced
by the economic challenges, the readi-
ness to move forward is exciting.
How would you describe your rela-
tionship with overseas partners?
We, the federation system, and I think
in conjunction with the JDC and JAFI,
need to have a clarity of mission on
our overseas and Israel agenda.
We then need to define what the
partnership is with the JDC and
JAFI and ORT. And then we need to
execute and focus on outcomes in
bringing the mission to life.
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What if you had to describe the
relationship that exists now?
It is one that is very contentious
and it has struggled. But I am also
inspired because we had a meeting
last week with our lay leadership and
JDC and JAFI's top lay leadership and
professionals where we proactively
invited them to discuss some chal-
lenges of this year. We are saying if
the campaigns are down and the core
allocations are down, what can we do
all together?
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