http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/plp-closing-down/ I am still on vacation, but my inbox has been flooded with reaction to the seemingly abrupt decision to close down the Professional Leaders Project. en-us jberkman@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-08-13T;17:39:00-05:00 egolinsky@nyc.rr.com Even though “Mussa Aliwat” is being facetious, as is his or her wont, that comment actually stumbles upon a basic flaw in the whole model currently being followed by the cabal of funders behind ROI, CLI, ReBoot, the former PLP, et al., which is: who gets to decide who’s in and who’s out?  It seems like there is tremendous overlap among the participants in all those programs.  Some might even call it a clique.  Cliquishness is one of the biggest turn-offs about the Jewish community for those on the outside who these same funders are in theory trying to attract and retain. Even though “Mussa Aliwat” is being facetious, as is his or her wont, that comment actually stumbles upon a basic flaw in the whole model currently being followed by the cabal of funders behind ROI, CLI, ReBoot, the former PLP, et al., which is: who gets to decide who’s in and who’s out?  It seems like there is tremendous overlap among the participants in all those programs.  Some might even call it a clique.  Cliquishness is one of the biggest turn-offs about the Jewish community for those on the outside who these same funders are in theory trying to attract and retain.

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