According to the report in the Columbia Spectator, he sounded a theme of confidence:
Eisen assured the crowd that he is confident and ready to take on the challenges of leading JTS.
“Let me say—not only as a leader of Conservative Judaism, but as a lifelong Conservative Jew and a scholar of American Judaism—that I utterly reject talk of decline when it comes to the state of the movement and its prospects,” he declared. “Malaise is in the eye or head of the beholder.”
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This is my persona's cynicism, not my own:
"I utterly reject talk of decline when it comes to the state of the movement and its prospects,”"
Didn't a certain recent president say a similar thing about the war in Iraq?
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