The news that the sale of American Jewish University to an international educational group will not go through is a major development.
(To read the story, click here.)
I will write about it in greater detail in the next few days. For now, I just want to impress on our community leaders that if there’s an opportunity to keep the campus in Jewish hands, let’s do it. Everyone knows that Milken Community Schools was in the running the last time around, and yes, there was some bad blood when a deal couldn’t be made. I heard it all from both sides.
So, for the sake of the community, I hope that the parties involved can bury any hatchets and look at this as an extraordinary opportunity to heal communal wounds.
We don’t always get second chances in life. This is one of them. Hanukkah seems to have come early for our community. I hope we can rise to the occasion and accept the gift.
