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Sep 2011
Rabbi Any Doren is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumnus of Class I. He currently serves as Assistant Rabbi and Director of Religious Education at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina. He previously worked as Program Associate for the Wexner Foundation from 1995 to 1998. He can be reached at akoren@tegreensboro.org It was the fall of 1993 and I was starting my career as a Rabbi. I was working as the
Sep 2011
Allison is the Coordinator of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program and is based at the Harvard Kennedy School. She can be reached at: ashapira@wexner.net I married into the Holocaust. Though I have Polish roots, my family came to the Americas before the Nazis started deporting Jews to ghettos and concentration camps. As such, while the Holocaust affected me as something that happened to my people, I never felt it as
Sep 2011
Jonathan Spira-Savett is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class III. He is Rabbi of Temple Beth Abraham in Nashua, New Hampshire and has been a teen educator and active in the Jewish teen philanthropy movement. Jon blogs, he shares Torah, and podcasts at rabbijon.com. He can be reached at spirasavett@yahoo.com. For my first thirteen years after ordination, I was either about third in the hierarchy of a day
Hirsh is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, Class 2 and is a LGSW, MSEd. He is the Education Director of ZEHAYOM, the Jewish National Addiction Recovery Network, connecting Jewish addicts and their families with resources for recovery. He also recently founded Minchas Yitzchok, a Chassidic/12 Step Shul. Hirsh and his wife Chayie, live in Silver Spring, MD. He can be reached at rabbihirsh@zehayom.org. Keeping the flame alive in
Sep 2011
Shuli Passow is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XVI. She is a second year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary and serves as boardchair of the Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn, www.jmcbrooklyn.org, She can be reached at shuhead@gmail.com Facing a difficult challenge at work, I launched an effort to solve the problem. I thought things over for several days. Wrote in my journal. Consulted with friends
Sep 2011
Larry is a Wexner Heritage Milwaukee alumnus. He is a financial advisor and a blogger for the Huffington Post and at www.larrygellman.blogspot.com. Larry now lives in Tucson and can be reached at larry.gellman@gmail.com Recently, I completed my three-year term as Chairman of the Board of CLAL, an organization that continues its legacy as the primary promoter of pluralism and the relevance of Jewish wisdom as important tools for living a
Sep 2011
Don Seeman is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship Alumnus of Class IX. He is an Associate Professor at Emory University, and holds a joint appointment in Jewish Ethnography with the Department of Religion and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. His publications include: "'Where is Sarah Your Wife': Cultural Poetics of Gender and Nationhood in the Hebrew Bible," in Harvard Theological Review 91:2 (1998); "'One People, One Blood':
Sep 2011
Tara is a Wexner Heritage Westchester 07 alumna and is the founder of Marketing Matters, Ltd., a N.Y. based marketing consulting firm specializing in non-profits. Tara also serves as a parent advisor to J-Teen Leadership, a teen-led community service and leadership organization. J-Teen Leadership was founded by Amanda Bilski and her mom, Tracey Bilski, a Wexner Heritage alumna from NY. Tara can be reached at tara@marketingmattersltd.com Can you imagine leaving
Aug 2011
Benjamin Samuels is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class VI and has served as the rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Tefillah of Newton Centre, Massachusetts for the past sixteen years and teaches widely in the Greater Boston area. He can be reached at ravbensam@shaarei.org. This summer, I have been leading a Shabbat afternoon Tanakh study, “Responding to the Call: Divine Commission and Reluctant Prophets.” In our sessions, we have
Aug 2011
Tricia Hellman Gibbs, alumna of the 2008 San Francisco Wexner Heritage Program, is the co-founder of the San Francisco Free Clinic, a clinic providing free care to the medically-uninsured. In the fall of 2011, she will begin the Masters program in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. She can be reached at triciagibbs@comcast.net “He (who delights in Torah) is like a tree planted beside streams of