Excerpt From Blog Post:by Aharon Horwitz and Ariel Beery
Scarcity. It’s a word that evokes dread in the minds of Jewish organizational professionals struggling to meet their budgets while they continue to provide for their constituents. The sustenance of thousands in need – whether elderly, young children, immigrants, the destitute or others – stands or falls on the strength of the infrastructure the Jewish people have built in Israel and around the world over the past century. Reacting to the gloomy predicament caused by the international recession, Jewish institutions and organizations worldwide have moved to reduce expenditures and focus on their core agenda: cutting pay, shedding staff, and even shortening work weeks. Some federations in the United States have even been forced to cut allocations to service organizations – such as the 20-percent cut in Milwaukee’s funding of the agencies it generally sponsors.
These cuts don’t always preserve the core. In Chicago, Jewish...
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