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hey Dana, remember if you hadn’t been a part of those “obligatory educational programs” which you were forced to go to, you wouldn’t have met these cool Szczecin guys, the people you’ve been posing this article on their FB wall, and last but not least, having the opportunity to write your thought on “Jewrnalism”.
קצת לירוק לבאר, לא חושבת?

Comment by anna on 1/27/12 at 3:39 pm

I was not forced to anything. It was my free choice.
ועל ראש הגנב בוער הכובע, אף אחד לא דיבר על מניינים.

Comment by Dana Adadi on 1/29/12 at 9:49 am

I dont even understand this article. Dana, you used to be part of this community, leading Shomer, so why didnt you organize something extraordinary, that is not “barking on the same tree”?
Unfortunately you werent here for last Hanuka, even though your Shomer group was part of the organizers too, so you werent able to see how amazing work they did.
To add, I do have a program that is regular, with 50 happy participants each time and everybody brings a cookie/drink. It is not compulsory at all, whatsmore, people are constantly asking us to organize it more often, not just once a month. At the moment nobody is offering this kind of program. Where is the “tree to be barked”? Im sure it is great what Przemek is doing, he is a great guy with all the talent, but he told me personally that there are 7 Jews in his town including him. I dont think you can compare a town like that to a city… Of course it is going to be different if you have 1 program or more choice to spend a Chanuka program…
Ive been living here for a little bit longer period than what you spent here and I am very happy for the growing supply of better and better quality programs. Also lets not forget, that this amazing project, Jewrnalism wouldnt be able to be started, if not for our MiNYanim project, which is based in Budapest.

Comment by Kata on 2/02/12 at 7:30 am

http://www.jewishjournal.com/jewrnalism/item/budapest_vs_20120202/

Comment by Dana Adadi on 2/03/12 at 1:29 am

Dear Kata,
my pleasure to share with you a platform where you can promote your activity, but in these circumstances can’t see what’s your benefit, as you direct arrows of critics to targets I never mentioned myself.

Comment by Dana Adadi on 2/03/12 at 2:07 am

Dear Dana,
Thank you but I dont need more promotion to my program, it is already successful. If I had wanted promotion, I would have said the name of the program (how do people know which program I am talking about?) and more details about where and how people could join. But Im sure I dont have to tell you how real promotion works. I reacted to your following statements. I copy them here cause it seems you already forgot what you wrote. I reacted to “barking on the same trees” - this is the only program like that, and I wrote to you about our greath Chanuka event which you didnt attend, “instead of making some people happy, they made one community very confused” - our participants are very happy and have asked us to make the program more frequently, “Not because they are obligated to by any educational program” - u are talking about the Polish community like that,  comparing it to the Budapest community. So my program is not obligatory at all, still attracts 50-60 people each time. As you were describing a general misleading thought about the Budapest community the only way to show it is not true if I give specific examples. So this is what I did. Dont give another meaning to my words.

Comment by Kata on 2/03/12 at 3:47 am

“I was attending too many Hanuka parties that were organized by different sources”- meaning I don’t write about any event that -I DID NOT ATTENDED
including your great event.

It will be incredibly stupid of me considering my “Shomer group” worked on the same event.
More over- 90% of my work in the community was to find chances to put groups to collaborate together. up to this Hanuka you mentioned it was impossible- this recent Hanuka was the 1st event for us to work together, and I consider it as a sucess and break-through, so why should I critic it?

The article was speaking generally about the phenomena of becoming segregated as you grow.
Genova or Szczecin communities are remarkably small, it is like a joke to people;
I wanted high-light the sense of family you can achieve when you are not “50-60 people”, and how inclusive you must be when you don’t have to find an “only program which is like that” in a scenery of many programs.

The fact that you still decided to take this article personally, (even though as mentioned Budapest= dozens of other organization) is yours alone.

Most of the organizations I referred to do not read my material (or read English at all).
you read it BECAUSE you are familiar with Jewrnalism and the MiNYanim project, (-which basically established in Krakow, if you want to be precise. -Let’s give SOME credit to the people themselves and not only to political institutions)

True, you’ve been active in this community longer than me, but It is not a criteria the stands in my way when coming to come critically about a topic, which you can’t and don’t.
If I wanted to be personal I would take this comparison much further and write: “Przemek from Szceczin was the most inclusive person I met (I think I’m allowed to state that) and Kata from Budapest is the most exclusive person I met”, (which is actually what I have experienced working next to you, to tell the truth)

but I don’t write it

Comment by Dana Adadi on 2/05/12 at 1:25 am

Also,
You completely misunderstood the spirit of this article if you offer me to produce something “extra-ordinary” in a comment that follows a text which is all about- cherishing places where it’s still naive (and the good way) simple and most important-  friendly to the participants ( and not to an institutionalized own ego)

Comment by Dana Adadi on 2/05/12 at 3:20 am

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