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Jun 2011
Shoshana Friedman is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XXII and studies at the Hebrew College Rabbinical School. She can be reached at shoshana friedman@yahoo.com. Mordy Walfish is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class XXII and the Assistant Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive (www.bjpa.org) and an MPA candidate in Nonprofit Management at New York University. He can be reached at mordecaiwalfish@gmail.com. This past WGF Winter Institute, many
Sarah is a Wexner Graduate Fellow alumna, Class XI; she is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She has published widely on Jewish language and identity, and her book, Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism, is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press. She can be reached at sbenor.huc@gmail.com. Continuity. Outreach. Pluralism. Innovation. Linking the
May 2011
Joe is a Wexner Heritage (Philadelphia 1) alumnus . He collaborated with Jerry L. Jennings to write I Choose Life: Two Linked Stories of Holocaust Survival and Rebirth (Xlibris 2009), from which this piece is adapted. Joe can be reached at JFinkelstein@BlankRome.com. On May 5 of each year, my father, Sol Finkelstein, declares, “Today is my birthday.” Although he was born in September, Sol counts the start of his life
May 2011
Dr. Yossi Chajes is an alumnus of Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Class IV, and he is a professor of Jewish Thought and History at the University of Haifa. He can be reached at chajes11@gmail.com. Over the past decade, I've led High Holiday services in stunningly diverse religious contexts. My challenge has been to distill and express what is most meaningful to me in the dovening within very different pre-existing frameworks. Recently,
Akiva Herzfeld is an alumnus of Wexner Graduate Fellowship Class XVI and and a graduate of YCT Rabbinical School. He is the rabbi of Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh in Portland, Maine, rabbiherzfeld@gmail.com When the angel of death came to take away the life of Shloime Feivel ben Rav Moishe Ahrun, Sid Levine, Sid fought him off with a smile, a few old Jewish jokes, and with a needle and thread. Sid
Marcia Cohodes is a Wexner Heritage Alumna from Minneapolis and a member of the Wexner Alumni Forum. She is retired from a career in investment banking. She is an advocate for individuals with disabilities in the Jewish community and co-chair of the UJC Disability Workgroup. Working with alumnus Jerry Ingber, Marcia helped develop Hillel LIFE: Leadership Initiative for Excellence; a program at the University of Minnesota, funded by alumni of
Ron Moses is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Houston ’06 group. He is the immediate past president of Congregation Brith Shalom – a Conservative synagogue, and recipient of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston’s Ben Susholtz Young Leadership Award in 2009 and the Maimonides Award for State of Israel Bonds in 2010. He can be reached at ronmoses@swbell.net I have good news and bad news. Let’s start with the
Apr 2011
Don Seeman is an Alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, Class IV and Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is both a rabbi and an anthropologist and author of One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism. He can be reached at dseeman@emory.edu. This column was originally published on March 31 in the online edition
Apr 2011
Lisa Schlaff is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program and Assistant Principal of SAR High School in Riverdale, NY. She is a co-founder of Darkhei Noam, a partnership minyan in Manhattan. Lisa can be reached at lisaschlaff@gmail.com. My life ten years ago: I lived on the Upper West Side and was deeply involved in the founding of two new Jewish organizations, both of which were cutting-edge in the
Apr 2011
Dr. Benjamin M. Jacobs is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program, Class XI. He is the Assistant Professor of Social Studies, Education and Jewish Studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He can be reached at bjacobs@nyu.edu. There are 2.6 seconds remaining in overtime at the 1990 NCAA East Regional Final between Duke and UConn. Duke, trailing by a point, calls time