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The site offers the Jewish community’s only blog focusing on leadership. With posts from top minds in the Jewish world, the CLI blog is designed to challenge and inspire you. Take home the ideas raised in the blog. Talk about them over dinner. Meditate on them before sleep. Send them to others to get their responses. CLI aims to spark conversation.

Through its Leadership Blog, CLI offers perspectives from its own professional leadership, from popular vibrant voices in the Jewish communal world and from voices that have yet to gain access to the public ear. For years, the Jewish world has struggled with the “leadership challenge.” What is it? Why do we not have enough of it? Where can we get more? The Leadership Blog is designed to intentionally wrestle with this elusive, poignant, and vital topic.

CLI’s blog is not to be a Web 2.0 web site in the classic sense. Rather it allows the public limited access to the site where it can respond and express opinions. However, CLI will protect the tone of dialogue on its web site and will learn in real time how to maintain values-based intelligence with edge. All this will be inspired by the 2,000 year old statement in the Talmud (Eruvin 13b) that “both these and those are words of a living God.”

A Political Hat Trick/Hazaka of Optimism and Learning to Follow

By Yonatan Gordis, On 11/18/08 3:06 PM

Apparently, it takes three of a kind to make it through my thick skull. I have lived in three places for extended periods in my life - the United States, Jerusalem, and Vancouver. In the past two weeks, democratic processes have dramatically altered the political reality in each. Barack Obama...

ROI Regional Gathering in Latin America

By Yonatan Gordis, On 10/27/08 11:10 AM

Tonight was the first night of the first ROI Regional Gathering in Latin America. Fifty participants have gathered in Cancun, Mexico from sixteen countries. Like the ROI Summit that takes...

The Upsides of Economic Downturns - Op-Ed from The Jewish Week

By Yonatan Gordis, On 8/30/08 6:51 PM

The nervousness about the downward turn in the global economy pervades almost every conversation in the nonprofit world these days. In Israel, the weakened U.S. dollar has struck many organizations deep in their bellies as the funds they raise abroad are now worth 30 percent less than four months...

Living Mythical Lives

By Yonatan Gordis, On 5/12/08 2:06 PM

My mother’s father, Meyer Cohen, was something of a mythical character in our lives. Born (apparently) in Kiev in 1890, he was already in his 20’s when he immigrated to the United States. Married to Nechama (Nellie) Goldin in his 30’s, he was never much of a career man. He sold...

For the Love of Dave

By Yonatan Gordis, On 2/5/08 4:55 PM

When Dave Burnett, a 2005 recipient of the Charlie Award, a participant in ROI and Leading Up North and a dear member of our CLI family died in a tragic hiking accident on a Jordanian hillside two weeks ago, the light in our lives dimmed as if the grid of Jewish leadership had...

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