What's Happening Over at Shalem Center?

Just received their newsletter and read this:-

Scheindlin of Peace Now, Shoah Foundation joins Shalem as VP of Development

Ahavia Scheindlin, whose career in the Jewish world includes six years as National Director of Development and Planning for Americans for Peace Now and three years in Berlin as Vice President for European Operations for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, has joined the Shalem Center as Vice President for Development. Scheindlin will be based in the Shalem Foundation's new Los Angeles offices.

Moreover, she was for three years chair of Americans for Peace Now’s national executive committee and helped to transform the small volunteer organization into a national advocacy group with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
Scheindlin was also deputy political director and chief Jewish Fundraiser for the 1992 Clinton Presidential Campaign and has been active personally and professionally in California Democratic politics for many years.

Is Shalem planning to reach deep into liberal, progressive Jewish pockets for their neoconservative agenda?

Is Scheindlen turning political colors?

Is Shalem?

Anybody have any idea?


And while we're on the topic, here's another appointment of someone who opposes the idea of a Jewish civilian presence in the territory of the historic homeland of the Jewish people:-

Author, Scholar Daniel Gordis to take leading role in establishing Shalem College

Daniel Gordis, a leading Jewish educator and author of half a dozen books about Judaism and Israel, is joining the Shalem Center as Senior Vice President and Senior Fellow in the Institute for Zionist History and Thought. Gordis will take a leading role in the efforts to establish undergraduate and graduate degree-granting programs under the Center's auspices. Gordis was the founding dean of the Ziegler Rabbinical School at the University of Judaism. In recent years, he has been Vice President of the Mandel Foundation-Israel and Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem. He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary.