{"id":3240,"date":"2008-06-14T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T04:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2008-06-16T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:05:59","slug":"rabbi-weil-is-like-captain-spock-with-a-roladex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Weil Is Like Captain Spock With A Rolodex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He runs the starship Beth Jacob and will soon pilot the Orthodox Union.<\/p>\n<p>He has a powerful roladex and can get things done with a call or two.<\/p>\n<p>A body needs to shipped to Israel for a quick burial? Rabbi Weil will make a few calls and it&#8217;s arranged.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>He walks into the home of mourners and scans their bookshelf. He finds a book on Jabotinsky. He finds out the deceased was related to Jabotinsky. Voila, he produces a drasha on Jabotinsky.<\/p>\n<p>His main achievements while here include: <br \/>\n* Healing the community after the catastrophic Rabbi Weiss departure<br \/>\n* Redoing the administration and hiring Allan Ishakis as Executive Director (things now run very smoothly)<br \/>\n* Bringing in several new important donors<br \/>\n* Redoing the entire downstairs<br \/>\n* The acquisition of the lot next door (cnr Doheny and Olympic) which has now been transformed into &quot;Jacob&#8217;s Garden&quot; &#8211; a beautiful park<\/p>\n<p>He is a sincere and generous man on a one-to-one basis &#8211; and will liberally share even his most expensive cigars and rarest single malts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He runs the starship Beth Jacob and will soon pilot the Orthodox Union. He has a powerful roladex and can get things done with a call or two. A body needs to shipped to Israel for a quick burial? Rabbi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[29867,9602,5271,9604,9603],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steven-weil","tag-beth-jacob","tag-captain-spock","tag-drasha","tag-jabotinsky","tag-roladex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}