The local Bet Shemesh weekend newspapers announced the formation of something called "The Ramat Bet Shemesh Foundation", or in the original, "Keren Ramat Bet Shemesh".
According to the fairly ambiguous description in the papers, the foundation is meant to be philanthropic and apolitical. The foundation will deal with creating community projects, with putting RBS in the forefront of the Iryah's activities, and for pushing along important and central community projects, while taking into account the uniqueness of the diverse neighborhood with a high percentage of immigrants from many countries.
The rest of the articles were equally vague and ambiguous, mostly just reviewing the opening ceremony and quoting from some of the speeches. To be honest, I have no idea what any of the above means and what their intentions are or what they plan to do and be involved in or what their goals are.
Regardless of that, I wish them luck and success. I hope they do a good job and foster the achdus they talk about in their speeches, and successfully improve the quality of life in the neighborhood.
If anybody knows more about it, feel free to share...
With Eidensohn at the helm I have to imagine that the "achdus" will be limited.
ReplyDeleteThis man has made the Kupa into one of those mega organizations that spend more money on advertising themselves than anything else.
Does anyone know if other RBS askanim were invited?
They say that they will be apolitical.
ReplyDeleteRabbi Eidensohn was a very public and vocal supporter of Moshe Abutbol for mayor. He is also closely aligned with Rabbis Perlstein, Kornfeld and Malinowitz.
It seems to me that this is just another project to promote himself and his way of doing things.
Halevi that this should bring achdus or other positive steps.
If done incorrectly or for personal gain the results could actually hinder progress in RBS.