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Mar 2012
Liz is a current Wexner Graduate Fellow (Class XXIII) and a second-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR in New York. Liz can be reached at lizraeli@gmail.com. I have been thinking about what makes a text holy. At my core, I am a librarian’s daughter. So during winter vacation, when I reorganized all of the books in my room, I arranged them topically, like a microcosmic and eclectic Dewey Decimal system. Various
David is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program, Chicago 2006, a financial advisor on the North Shore of Chicago and teacher of spirituality classes in the Jewish community. He can be reached at dstrulow@gmail.com. What I’ve been thinking about lately is my enduring need to connect my lifelong study and practice of Judaism with spirituality. By way of background, I feel like I woke up one day to a
Feb 2012
Miriam is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, (Class IX) and currently serves as the Director of Educational Engagement at the Center for Jewish Education in Baltimore where she tries to creatively, thoughtfully and passionately inspire families to connect with Judaism and Jewish community through meaningful encounters with our tradition and our people. Miriam can be reached at: miriamburg@yahoo.com. My son has decided that he is going to be
Feb 2012
Barry is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumnus and currently serves as the Head of School at Fuchs Mizrachi in Cleveland. OH. Barry can be reached at bkislowicz@fuchsmizrachi.org When it comes to day schools it seems that the buzz word of the moment is Sustainability: the rising price of tuition, the inability of families to afford our day schools, and the struggle for institutional fundraising to keep up with the cost
Feb 2012
Rabbi Carol Davidson is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class II. Rabbi Davidson is the Associate Executive Director for External Affairs at the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services. Rabbi Carol Davidson can be reached at: cdavidson@jbfcs.org. Once a year, UJA Federation of NY sends the email to our CEO and me, telling us it’s “that time of year again.” For once, they are not referring to
Feb 2012
Allison is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XIV, and a Jewish Educator. She is currently working with a fellow Class XIV Graduate Fellowship alumna, Orit Kent, on the Beit Midrash Research Project at Brandeis University, developing, researching, and teaching a “Havruta-Inspired Pedagogy.” Allison can be reached at alltcook@earthlink.net. Last month I made what felt like a triumphant return to Israel after too many years. This time I
Feb 2012
Jamie Borstein is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship (Class 18). Jamie is the Assistant Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, North America, and can be reached at james.bornstein@gmail.com. If Roger Schwarz had a dollar for every marital spat he’s helped me to avoid, he’d be a wealthy man. Roger, President of Roger Schwarz and Associates, and a master of effective communication strategies, taught my class during
Feb 2012
Jacob is a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. He is writing his dissertation on Jewish-state relations in communist Czechoslovakia. He lectures regularly at the St. Louis Holocaust Memorial and Learning Center. Jacob can be reached at labendz@gmail.com. The results of a recent study shocked the Israeli Army (http://tinyurl.com/7337tob). It seems that their program of sending officers to visit Auschwitz backfired among a significant cohort, actually diminishing their
Jan 2012
Rabbi Edward S. Boraz is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, (Class I) and is the Rabbi for the Upper Valley Jewish Community and is the Michael Steinberg ’61 Rabbi of Dartmouth College Hillel, now in his 14th year of service. He can be reached at Edward.S.Boraz@darthmouth.EDU. For the past two years, we had approximately 20 people attend our Simchat Torah celebrations. This year, with Meira, a new Educational
Jan 2012
Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumna, (Class 13) who works at Aitz Hayim Center for Jewish Life in Glencoe, Illinois. She also serves as the Director of the Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism and is the Executive Director of the National Organization of American Mohalim. She received master’s degrees from the University of Judaism and from Harvard Graduate School of Education and was ordained as