{"id":620,"date":"2008-03-11T05:43:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/positive-jews-in-the-news"},"modified":"2008-03-11T05:43:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:43:38","slug":"positive-jews-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Positive Jews in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an idea for Jewish organizations like Federations and Temples to help their constituents, to expand their visibility and to increase their relevance in their respective communities.\u00a0 Add a section to their newsletters, magazines and websites called &#8220;Jews in the News&#8221; which would highlight local community members who had been recognized in the greater community.\u00a0 This would include things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mrs K joined the board of X company<\/li>\n<li>Mr W was named to head this hospital board<\/li>\n<li>Steve G was granted full tenure at this University<\/li>\n<li>A book written by Greg B was reviewed in the NYT<\/li>\n<li>Mark and Melissa S have opened a new branch of their lighting store<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would give the individuals important recognition, it would help increase the communities justifiable self-pride and would give a volunteer opportunity to a few community members to work at home as a clipping service.<\/p>\n<p>I had this idea yesterday while listening to the news of Elliot Spitzer and the prostitutes.\u00a0 One of the radio commentators compared it to a Greek Tragedy.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 His sins were lust which is common and hubris which he always displayed but was never punished for before.<\/p>\n<p>Nurit asked &#8220;Is he Jewish?&#8221;\u00a0 I said &#8220;I think he is, and this reflects badly on all of us.&#8221;\u00a0 That is when I had the idea for &#8220;Jews in the News.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an idea for Jewish organizations like Federations and Temples to help their constituents, to expand their visibility and to increase their relevance in their respective communities.\u00a0 Add a section to their newsletters, magazines and websites called &#8220;Jews in the News&#8221; which would highlight local community members who had been recognized in the greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}