JTA NEWS: "Jewish activist Abramowitz:
Visionary or snake oil salesman?
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
The New York Jewish Week
July 16, 2006
NEW YORK, July 16 (JTA) — Yosef Abramowitz had the floor at the closing session of the first national Jewish Youth Philanthropy Conference in Denver in April. Striding around the hotel conference room among about 100 teenagers, microphone in hand like a latter-day Phil Donohue, he exhorted them to see themselves as powerful agents of change, as prophets and leaders. He talked about great visions of a Jewish future, quoting philosophers from Zionist thinker Ehad Ha’Am to Yoda from “Star Wars.”"
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