Jack Rosen, the chairman of the American Jewish Congress, may well face the first serious challenge to his longtime, dominant leadership of the organization at an executive board meeting scheduled for Jan. 30.
Some members of the board of trustees are expressing deep frustration and anger over Rosen’s alleged autocratic style, most recently over his decision to appoint Israel Singer chairman of the international policy council of the Council for World Jewry — an AJCongress offshoot Rosen helped create and chairs — after Singer was ousted from the World Jewish Congress for alleged financial misdeeds.
"Not only was it embarrassing to the name of the American Jewish Congress to try to resuscitate the reputation of someone associated with financial