Joel Epstein, a charity columnist for the Huffington Post and a consultant for the country’s largest foundation started with Jewish money, the Annenberg Foundation, talks about his wish for the new year: A job in philanthropy, which is becoming harder and harder to find, he says.
They are subtle, but there seem to be some Jewish subtexts here in Epstein’s piece about looking for work:
Please remind my wife and three kids that we will be OK. Assure them that with my loaded BlackBerry and a strong presence on every networking site from LinkedIn to Twitter, the close of summer will bring a better employment picture and I will return to work. Tell them that someone out there will find me soon and save us from becoming yet another Southern California mortgage statistic.
And for all of you unemployed Westsiders with kids in private school, feel free to ask me about our generally good experience with LAUSD. Boy, I am glad we never fled the much maligned and admittedly uneven district for the equally uneven but costly private schools. As my son sat in high school orientation recently he was surprised to see kids he hadn’t seen since elementary school when they peeled off for Crossroads, Brentwood and Harvard-Westlake. I wasn’t surprised at all to hear that so many had come back to public education.
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