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Apr 2012
Menashe Bleiweiss is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumnus, Class III. He is a rebbe in Derech, a division of Ohr Somayach Yeshiva, a licensed tour guide, and directs a tour guide training program at Machon Lander. He lives with his wife and eight children in Telzstone, near Jerusalem. Menashe can be reached at jsisrael@netvision.net.il Pluralists tend to feel alienated by the many hierarchies in Torah and Jewish law. They prefer
Apr 2012
Gordon is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, Class I. He is currently serving in his twentieth year as Rabbinic Director at the Milken Community High School of Stephen Wise Temple. Gordon can be reached at gbernat- kunin@milkenschool.org Imagine a highly accomplished Jewish day school senior on her way to her Harvard interview. As she reviews her activities and achievements, pondering what might make her stand out, her
Apr 2012
Paula is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XI, and has served as rabbi at the Orangetown Jewish Center in Orangeburg, New York since ordination from JTS in 2004. Paula can be reached at: pmdrill@aol.com. When Jordan and I began his bar mitzvah lessons, I took a Torah from the ark, placed it into Jordan’s arms and asked him to repeat after me, “This is MY Torah.” I
Apr 2012
Jodi is an Atlanta 05 Wexner Heritage alumna. She is an urban planner who works at Jamestown Development and Construction on new urbanist development projects. She connects her volunteers and values through direct service work in the community and by serving on the boards of Limmud Atlanta+SE and Repair the World. Jodi can be reached at jodi.mansbach@gmail.com. I’d venture to say that for most participants in a Wexner program, engaging
Mar 2012
Robert Chazan has served for 25 years as the Chair of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Selection Committee, and he is an S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History; Director, Wagner-Skirball Dual Degree Program and Co-Director, Doctoral Program in Education and Jewish Studies. In August 1985, Rabbi Maurice Corson, newly appointed as President of the recently created Wexner
Mar 2012
Lisa, a member of the East Bay 10 Wexner Heritage Program, is an editor at Literary Mama . She serves as Board Secretary of the Contra Costa Jewish Day School in Lafayette, California. She is also a member of the Jewish Federation of the East Bay's Women's Philanthropy Board. Lisa can be reached at llmo@yahoo.com. Put 40 Jewish education leaders in a room and surround them with good food
Mar 2012
David A. Mersky is Managing Director of Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that solves problems in marketing, communication and resource development for non-profit organizations and private businesses. He can be reached at: www.merskyjaffe.com. The single most important committee of a nonprofit organization's board is its committee on governance and leadership development (whatever it may be called). It is charged with identifying and successfully engaging the future leadership
Michael is a graduate student at Emory University getting his PhD in American Religious Cultures. His work focuses on North American Jews and therapeutic culture. He is a Fellow of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory, and an alumnus of the Atlanta 2005 Wexner Heritage Program. Purim was wonderful this year. My three children really get into the joy of the holiday. They eagerly anticipate shaloch manot deliveries,
Mar 2012
Barb, a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumna of Class IV, is the Director of Education at Temple Israel in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the mother of three inspirational teenagers. Barb can be reached at: barbg@timemphis.org. I had a personal milestone recently. My youngest child became bar mitzvah. People were congratulating me and joking that the next big thing I would have to do is a wedding. It made me laugh, and
Mar 2012
Justus Baird is an alumnus of The Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XV and the rabbi and director of the Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Seminary in New York. He can be reached at: jbaird@auburnseminary.org In recent years I developed a new respect for the idea embodied in the line of prayer 'Blessed is the One who spoke and the world came to be' (Baruch she-amar v'hayah ha-olam). My younger