Rabbi Daniel Bogard
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Rabbi Daniel Bogard
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Rabbi at Central Reform Congregation in STL; co-founder of http://campindigopoint.org 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈; activist in the fight to #ProtectTransKids and their families from our government (he/him) 🖖
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I'm one of the organizers (and built the website 😎)
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And Jewish institutions are hardly democratic. They’re all corporations, run by boards of people, and their first directive is amassing wealth. For-profit companies call it “value”, nonprofits call it “endowment”. But the purpose is the same. Control.
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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Insightful thread.
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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this thread - and if you know my situation...
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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This thread is, unfortunately, spot on. And is why my career has been quite a struggle the last 10 years.
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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I'm Jewish and didn't understand the reason for this before, but seeing it laid-out seems obviously correct to me.
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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good thread. this is part of why I'm on the Board of my local, tiny synagogue
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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I not only joined a temple but agreed to chair the Praline Matzo Committee for the annual food festival for basically this reason
If you want Jewish institutions to represent actual Jews, unfortunately, it means joining and loudly demanding that we represent your values. Walking away leaves all of our institutions in the hands of unrepresentative right-wingers. 5/
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This is something I’ve been wondering about and I appreciate the thread!!
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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Important thread explained the gap between Jewish "voices" and American Jews.

It's probably a self-fulfilling death spiral. Alas.

If only I had Bezos money without Bezos amorality
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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if you're a left-wing uber-wealthy jew seeing this (lol) check out www.jewishliberation.fund
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But see
7 of those 16 individual donors are Jewish (best I can discern). Jews are 2% of the American population. I’m all for the small number of Jews with great wealth using that money to make a positive difference in the world. This is graft, pay to play, the worst of the court jew tradition.
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If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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Not the communities I am currently in, but I have seen this dynamic.
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
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This is an insightful explanation, and I probably applies to a lot of non-Jewish institutions, too.
If you want to understand why Jewish institutional leadership is so out of touch with actual American Jews, you need to understand the funding dynamic of basically every legacy Jewish institution. 1/
When a local rabbi said morally abhorrent things about Palestinians, the pressure campaign on the rest of the rabbinic community to not call him out was intense. When that same rabbi (with three others) writes a call out op-ed of me for recognizing the humanity of Palestinians? Bubkis. 7/
For many synagogues, only 10-20% of their members voted for Trump. But often 40-60% of their dollars come from that small, unrepresentative, loud and often bullying minority... A group that polices the boundaries of our community, and works to cancel anyone that they deem disloyal.. 6/
If you want Jewish institutions to represent actual Jews, unfortunately, it means joining and loudly demanding that we represent your values. Walking away leaves all of our institutions in the hands of unrepresentative right-wingers. 5/
Over and over again, when they have been dissatisfied with our positions, right-wingers threaten to pull their funding, while left wingers tend to just leave. I understand the impulse, but the reality is that this moves us to the right, not to the left. 4/
This means that the dollars funding Jewish organizations are consistently to the right of the Jews that these organizations purport to represent. This is the most extreme in Federations, but it is a dynamic that exists in basically every Jewish organization. 3/