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who is currently the president and
CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of
America, worked
closely with the JCC
range of initiatives and programs,
many of which generated revenue for
on a
the JCc. Having opened Ritz-Carlton
hotels around the world (and run
them from the Mandarin Oriental
Bangkok Hotel to the Ritz-Carlton
Dearborn), to having chain-wide
responsibility for its food and bever
age division, the man knows a thing or
two
about excellent customer service.
moving, he shared with me
expressed his desire to join
a
percentage of JCC
at
users
liyah, relocating from the
diaspora to Israel,
A
the Jewish state
the most sacred
But
timing
expertise
significant
Maple
a
financial
challenges,
and
Netanyahu
Crain's Detroit
She told Welch that the Board got so
make it the best com
busy "trying to
just kind
we
much
got
out
as we
should have
...
it
call for mak
ing aliyah, which
requires Jews to
give up their current
among European
Jewish leaders is that Israel is poised
ones
home for their
to
gone to Israel. Montreal, Miami,
London and New York also have
On Jan. 10, the day
after an attack by an
respond to anti-Semitic incidents
Europe by pushing allvah. Israeli
novelist A.B. Yehoshua's high-profile
claims that diaspora Jews are some
ISIS
how less Jewish has fueled the ten
ances
Dual-EdCJed People
just the place
in
He added: "This week,
team of ministers will
a
special
convene
to
steps to increase immigra
to Israel will be
with Mark
want to
forward, the Board will closely look
at finances, programs and everything
welcomed here warmlvand with open
arms. We will welcome you in your
absorption here in our country, which
that goes
on
at
the
Jewish
"nothing will be hidden
Center
...
and dedicated volunteers.
immigrate
is also your country."
France has been hit
from us:'
The JCC Board consists of many of
the Jewish community's most capable
hard
ing
Especially
by the anti-Jewish
fervor infest
community's philanthropic generos
ity. Anyone who has served on a
nonprofit board as a volunteer knows
Hiring
own
role and
-
will not
-
and
change
responsi
governing itself
the cost structure
associated with the outsized
physical
footprint of the Maple-Drake facility.
But it will go a long way toward reas
suring the community that the Board
deserves
the
to
be trusted with the
JCCagain. D
keys
the
timing
of the
mes
of the Hyper Cacher attack. The
prime minister offered all possible
assistance and support in facilitating
bilities in managing the relationship
with the CEO
over
sage obscured Netanyahu's immedi
ate outreach to France in the wake
with the Board
deeply at its
Netanyahu's message
a yearning for many
Jews. The timing of the message,
however, reeked of opportunism at a
fine; aliyah is
Flak
exceptional CEO, coupled
looking honestly and
an
Cautiously
grave and tense moment in the lives
of French Jews.
the rewards, sacrifices and occasional
frustrations that come with it.
'
to
Jewish life also resonates in Brazil,
Argentina, Australia and South Africa,
example even in swaths of
Europe unaffected by the intrusion of
adherents to radical political Islam.
for
-
5.7 million live in the U.S.
more
according
Library.
France is home to the
third-largest
number
seen
emigres
in recent years,
according to a JTA
report.
Netanyahu's appeal to French Jews
to flee to Israel unfortunately over
shadowed his more important urging
that the West and its allies must
front the "true root of the
con
problem,"
namely, "extremist Islamic terrorism."
To do otherwise would
what
mean
happened in Paris would prove to be a
staging point for Islamist terrorists to
try to exterminate, as Netanyahu put
it, UWestern civilization
as a
whole,
including the Jewish people."
It's shameful that
so
many world
leaders won't
clearly identify the real
villains threatening the world order:
Islamist terrorists, who have distorted
disgraced Islam the religion as
and
practiced by
the vast
majority of
Muslims. D
.
immigrants made ali-
yah; in contrast, 3,470
Americans immigrated to
Israel. French immigrants,
of course, had reason to
believe their lives were in
danger back home.
economic
woes
France's
haven't
fate of French Jewry, at
least symbolically, was the
dramatically in
France.
.
EUROPE CONDEMNS
ISLAMIST TERROR
ATTACKS
of Jews: 475,000. Last
nearly 7,000 French
France's Jewish institutions. He also
vowed help in advancing the fight
against the surging tides of European
anti-Semitism, which have been mani
EUROPE ON
THE MARCH
year,
helped.
so
numbers of French
Dey BODes
than 80 per
recovery from the tragedy; in return,
he only sought increased security for
fested
significant
6.1 million live in Israel and
cent of all Jews,
was
way that doesn't further tax the overall
-
to Jewish Virtual
The thrust of
of time and energy toward trying to
find a way to keep the JCC afloat in a
-
That's
much of Europe.
Tread
have devoted countless hours
underlying issue is the fragile
relationship between Israel the
cradle of Jewish history, tradition and
life
and the diaspora, where Jewish
life competes with acculturation,
assimilation, intermarriage and reli
gious apathy as well as anti-Semitism.
Both components make up the Jewish
people.
Diaspora Jewry, led by its vastness
in North America, isn't going away.
in Israel, not France.
Not all Jews leaving France have
Of the world's 13.9 million Jews,
particularly
during the most recent financial crisis,
most
sion.
The
in Europe that are suffering from
terrible anti-Semitism. All Jews who
of hand:' The story concluded
telling Welch that going
perception
in
tion from France and other countries
just
The
left four Jews dead, the Israeli leader
advance
of never delved into the financials
as
a
whose direction you pray; the State of
Israel is your home."
Board knew and when.
could,
can
declared from Jerusalem:
that Israel is not
JCC
President Florine Mark about what the
center we
Jew
"To all the Jews of France, all the
Jews of Europe, I would like to say
JCC's
Business writer Sherri Welch asked
munity
a
sympathizer on
Hyper Cacher, a Paris
kosher supermarket,
board room?
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Jan.
Benjamin
Win Be Hidden'
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knowledge
own
underlying issue is the fragile
relationship between Israel
and the diaspora.
of
tral homeland.
with customer service to
in its
journeys
issues
institution that has had notorious
have Van Grisven's
The
one
Benjamin Netanyahu
are
problems
it's
-
counts when Israeli
Prime Minister
from outside of the Jewish
community, might it have helped an
Drake
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Jewish
Jewish community.
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n
the JCC Board, but was frustrated at
being told he was ineligible because
he wasn't from the
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make.
Prior to
that he
lust
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Further
darkening the
by all four families
Hyper Cacher attack
afflicted to bury their loved
decision
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