Okay, this isn’t a Washington story, but it’s political, sort of.

If you’re a Jewish leader or someone who cares about the fact a new generation of Jews shows  clear signs of terminal boredom when it comes to the vast, creaky Jewish communal infrastructure, you shouldn’t miss Dan Sieradski’s  “31 Days, 31 Ideas” outpouring of “innovative ideas to transform the Jewish future.”

Sieradski, a pioneer in the Jewish blogosphere,  is geeky to the point of mania, and it’s no surprise his answers rely heavily on new technologies and the resulting social ideas that the over-50 set – in other words, the vast majority of top Jewish leaders – tend to find confusing and unsettling.

Memo to the Jewish leadership: that’s a big part of the problem. This technology stuff isn’t just a fad; it’s a genuine revolution in the way people communicate, create communities and advocate.  Ignore it, or think that just because your organization has a Web site you’re okay, at your own peril.

Sieradski ranges widely across the Jewish landscape. He suggests, for example, a “repository of sacred Jewish texts encoded in XML, a format that would enable software developers to take the creation of Jewish educational Web applications to the next level,” and also “an online news portal for progressive Jewish news, opinion and action.”

Sieradski has more ideas every day than a lot of people have in a typical year.  This is worth reading, pondering and acting on.