9/6/07

Good Luck at JTS Arnie!


Arnie Eisen was inaugurated today as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

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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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous9/06/2007 6:59 PM

    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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