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| By: New York Magazine |
| Published: February 22, 2005 |
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by Craig Horowitz
A financial scandal at the World Jewish Congress has exposed deep political schisms and changed the focus from fighting for world Jewry to infighting. Can the house that Edgar Bronfman built be put back in order?
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Stephen Herbits has suddenly gotten angry. For the past hour, as a picturesque evening snow fell lightly on Madison Avenue, he has talked expansively about his background as a Washington insider, his twenty years as a key Seagram's executive, and his current role as secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress.
Then I mention that several people from other Jewish organizations have said they were not at all surprised by the difficulties the World Jewish Congress has been facing, that its weak administration and sloppy record-keeping were an open secret. The WJC was, according to one insider, "a volcano waiting to erupt."
Herbits, a tall, lean 62-year-old with gray hair and a gray beard, nearly levitates out of his chair, instantly going ballistic.
"As you talk to the leaders of the other Jewish organizations, check their accomplishments against their governance," he says in a voice that's rising to fill the room. They've got perfect governance and no fucking accomplishments."
Read the full investigative report:
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Machers in Meltdown
- (Craig Horowitz, New York magazine)
02.22.2005
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