Not the Way the Jewish Community should be operating

I found the following excerpt particularly on-point about the ills of Jewish organizational life:

We have been living on yesterday's fumes for too long. Old fashioned anti-anti-Semitism, unrealistic Zionism, superficial and, in the end, meaningless congregational life (including painfully unspiritual Bar and Bat Mitzvahs) are finally taking their toll.

- Michael Steinhardt, "Counterpoint," Contact 12, number 3 (Spring 2010), 15.