re - Choice: the PROs and CONs . . .

As election day approaches, we prepare to cast our votes, to exercise our rights and duties as citizens, to choose who will represent us, and govern on our behalf. This is the essence of freedom, exercising the right to choose.

Freedom to choose is also the cornerstone of a free economy, the engine that drives prosperity, bringing low cost goods and services to the masses. Choices and competition keep the market accessible and affordable. Businesses and organizations know that to succeed, they need to meet the needs of their customers and clients.

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So it is with choices in Jewish Charleston, particularly Orthodox Jewish Charleston. With the advent of the new West Ashley Minyan, new choices are now available to us.

BSBI has functioned for years as a monopoly. But now there are options beyond the control of the BSBI establishment. And the expansion of choices is good for the community, collectively and individually.

Some like to speak in code - "We must do what is good for BSBI." Yes, indeed. And which kibbutz are you from?

Actually, the New West Ashley Minyan is good for BSBI, good for AHA, the JCC and Jewish Charleston, no question about it. Let’s have more alternatives to the bromides of the old guard. Let’s see whose model for progress, growth and change has traction. Lets see what happens in the market-place of freely-chosen ideas.

Are there any cons to having choices?

Not as I know it . . . and Happy Voting . . .