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September 7, 2009 12:16 pm at 12:16 pm in reply to: Combine OU & Young Israel To Save Mucho Moola #657720DBarrParticipant
What good are the Young Israel bylaws if National Council lets shuls that violate them keep using the name?
September 7, 2009 12:11 pm at 12:11 pm in reply to: Combine OU & Young Israel To Save Mucho Moola #657719DBarrParticipantThe Young Israel of the Twentieth Century was an honest organization. There is a lot of Hakaras Hatov for it. The problems arose after Rabbi Ephraim Sturm retired. The current administration does not enforce the Young Israel standards. There are several shuls out of town that are called Young Israel that do not have Shomer Shabbos officers and leave their parking lots open on Shabbos. When the frum people complained to National Council, they were the ones harassed and sued by National Council to try to shut them up.
September 4, 2009 7:43 pm at 7:43 pm in reply to: Combine OU & Young Israel To Save Mucho Moola #657715DBarrParticipantSixteenth Street Synagogue didn’t change its name because they wanted to be part of another organization. They changed it because they were being forced to leave the National Council Young Israel building. In the end they had to buy it which never made any sense because the shul was as much part of the building as the National Council.
September 4, 2009 7:03 pm at 7:03 pm in reply to: Combine OU & Young Israel To Save Mucho Moola #657714DBarrParticipantMost people don’t realize that the name Young Israel was coined by Judah Magnes who was first a Reform then Conservative rabbi. He almost made it a Conservative organization. So maybe it would not be a bad idea to drop the name.
September 4, 2009 11:13 am at 11:13 am in reply to: Combine OU & Young Israel To Save Mucho Moola #657708DBarrParticipantThat’s why he suggests moving the Young Israel name to the OU. It would be like taking a Verizon landline number and porting it to his AT&T iPhone. The name stays the same and there would be only one payment instead of two.
September 4, 2009 5:54 am at 5:54 am in reply to: Combine OU & Young Israel To Save Mucho Moola #657707DBarrParticipantThat sounds like what he wants Young Israel to do, transfer ownership of the trademark name to the OU. When that happens, who needs National Council anymore? For that matter, what do they do now anyway besides hold the trademark?
September 3, 2009 11:59 pm at 11:59 pm in reply to: Combine OU & Young Israel To Save Mucho Moola #657704DBarrParticipantThe letter was talking about a Young Israel shul that pays dues to both organizations already anyway. He’s not saying to combine two totally separate types of groups. Apparently the shul already sees itself as needing the OU but pays Young Israel just for the name.
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