Talk:American Jewish Congress

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[edit] Cleanup

Hi, not sure what the cleanup issue is. Advise please?

Thanks

Well, to begin with, the article is a chronological history. The first paragraph should be a current overview. The article needs to be split up into better catagories. PhatJew 07:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

The article doesn't mention the rightward tilt of the agency and the near total erosion of the agency's grassroots, including the seperation of local chapters from the national in Philadelphia, Boston and elsewhere. NJB10011 21:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

In the first section, democratic is written Democratic ( big D) - error?

[edit] AJCongress and AJCommittee

I've tried to edit both pages so the reference to the other, similarly named organization is parallelDavid in DC 19:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Israel Singer section

This looks like a BLP problem to me. The info on this AJCongress page is actually much more detailed than on the Israel Singer page. That page looks problematic too, which I'll note there. Anybody have an opinion? David in DC (talk) 21:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean. Can you explain the problem? Perhaps it can be improved or corrected if we knew what is at issue. Thanks. Juda S. Engelmayer (talk) 20:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

"the former secretary general of the World Jewish Congress - who left the agency after claims of financial irregularities were levied following an investigation by the New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer[12] and followed up by accusations from WJC founder Edgar Bronfman[13] about alleged theft" suggests the allegations by Spitzer and Bronfman are true. This is unproven. WP:BLP may require a higher level of certainty about the allegations to include them in an artcle about a living person (Singer).

"Jack Rosen, AJCongress' chairman has been accused of keeping the appointment from the agency's board and breaching protocol in doing so..." is unsourced and probably violates WP:BLP as to Rosen.

"At a December 2007 meeting of the Board's Executive Committee, Rosen was put on the spot and challenged by fellow board members who opposed the association with Rabbi Singer..." is unsourced and may violate WP:BLP as to the other board members. David in DC (talk) 20:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

It is not unsourced. It is in the Jewish Week article of Jan 18 that is a reference in the Wiki-article. The claims of theft and irregularities are in several articles, including the NY Times. The Wiki entries all say "alleged" and link to established references that back up the statements made. Juda S. Engelmayer (talk) 21:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)