Organizational culture is based on the values shared by people in an organization, people who have an impact on the behavior of that culture – both favorably and adversely. Learning about, understanding and valuing the ethical, symbolic and behavioral codes of the people who form part of a system is vital for our communities to function harmoniously.

by Daniela Rusowsky

By Dr. Debbie Weissman

Our celebration of Chanukah ought not obscure the many positive contributions Hellenic and Hellenistic culture have made in Jewish history. Jews have never been sealed off hermetically from the societies and cultures that surround us; neither should we be so today. The problem was that the oppressors in the Hanukkah story were trying to impose cultural uniformity on an Empire, using oppressive means to do so. Unity should never be synonymous with uniformity; cultural differences among groups must be respected.

By Dr. Debbie Weissman
It is in the Rabbinic sources—especially the Mishnah (redacted in 200 CE) and the Talmud (200-500 CE)-- that we find what might be termed positive, accessible role models for modern Jewish leaders.
It was Rabban Yochanan's destiny to be one of the leading figures in the most dramatic event in Israel's history as a nation in its own land—the destruction of the Second Temple

See also “Jewish Insights into Leadership A Family of Leaders”:
- First installment: Aaron
- Second installment: Miriam
- Third Installment: Moses

By Dr. Debbie Weissman
Miriam's moral leadership is only hinted at in the sources. Because in Numbers 20:1-3, her death is immediately followed by a scarcity of water, the Talmud in Ta'anit 9a attributes the well from which the children of Israel drew water in the desert to the merit of Miriam. Some scholars have suggested that a well is a kind of feminine image. Others have developed the connection between water and Torah, as "living waters." In this regard, Miriam would have been a source of Torah, and perhaps of a particularly feminine, nurturing kind of Torah.

See also:
- First installment: Aaron
- Third Installment: Moses

By Luis del Yerro

In the present work we shall be touching upon another element that crops up when we focus on the context within which the functioning of direction and leadership arises: the organization.
The latter constitutes, without a doubt, an environment in which contradictions, tension and conflict come to expression on a daily basis. These are questions which unyieldingly confront the best intentions and efforts towards leadership, and which present true challenges and test the mettle of leaders and directors.