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Jan 2011
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, 25 years after its release, remains the most powerful Holocaust film ever made. Reprinted With Permission From The Tablet Magazine Deborah Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She is the author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving. Her latest book, The Eichmann Trial, will be published by Nextbook Press in 2011.
Stu Seltzer is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program, Westchester/New York ’07. Stu is currently Co-chair of the UJA Federation campaign for Westchester County, NY. He can be reached at stuseltzer@aol.com. “Donate a Torah in Germany? I can’t even bring myself to buy a German car.” This was my reaction when my friend Jon Spielman first invited my family to join him on his trip to dedicate a Torah
Jan 2011
Etta Zimmerman is a Wexner Heritage Alumna, Boca Raton 07. She serves as a member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and is a past Chair of the Board of Director’s for the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. Etta can be reached at ezboca@bellsouth.net. I often wish that Oprah was Jewish, hence the Oprah effect of bringing to light the significant needs of our times and helping
Jan 2011
Jeni S. Friedman is a current Wexner Fellow/ Davidson Scholar. She is a PhD candidate in Education and Jewish Studies at NYU. Jeni can be reached at rabbijenifriedman@gmail.com It started the other day because I made a new friend. I wasn't really planning it – it just sort of happened. I finished a consulting meeting at a synagogue, and one of the teachers and I found ourselves on the same
Marci Levine Dollinger is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage San Francisco 08 group. She is an involved member of the Bay Area Jewish community, as a teacher and volunteer at Brandeis Hillel Day School and through her involvement at Congregation Rodef Sholom, the Osher Marin JCC, and Jewish Family and Children’s Services. Marci can be reached at mdollinger@aol.com. Sometimes, leadership moments are private and intensely personal. At my
Dec 2010
Rabbi Kenneth Carr is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (Class III). Ken is in his tenth year as the rabbi of Congregation Or Ami in Lafayette Hill, PA. He can be reached at rabbi.carr@or-ami.org. As I sat in my mentor’s office, feeling swamped by all of my rabbinical responsibilities, his office phone began to ring. I expected him to answer the phone, but he just kept speaking
Dec 2010
Carrie Harris is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program, NewYork/Wachtel. Carrie is a member of GoldmanHarris LLC, a law firm specializing in zoning and historic preservation. Carrie is active in Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, writes occasionally for The Jewish Week, and has created a multimedia (photography/poetry/dance) program about Jews in Spain. She can be reached at charris@goldmanharris.com. When I finally got married four years ago, it was to a Jewish
Dec 2010
Reckler Cohn is an alumna of the Denver 2008 Wexner Heritage group. She is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Aimco, a publicly held apartment REIT headquartered in Denver, CO. She can be reached at lisa.cohn@aimco.com. B’tzelem elohim – each of us is created in the image of G-D. This is easy enough to understand – except perhaps when applying it to someone carrying a sign reading “Your Rabbi
Dec 2010
Lisa Lisser is an alumna of the JWI-MetroWest Wexner Heritage Program. Lisa lives in Short Hills, New Jersey where she has been actively involved in the MetroWest Federation for the last 10 years. She currently chairs her community's Partnership 2000 program with the Israeli communities of Ofakim and Merchavim in the Negev. Lisa can be reached at lzlisser@verizon.net Lately, I’ve been thinking about Jewish Peoplehood. I chair our MetroWest New
Dec 2010
Annie Tucker is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (Class 12) and Associate Rabbi of The Jewish Center, a Conservative congregation located in Princeton, NJ. From 2005-2006, Annie served as student rabbi to congregation Beth Israel in Biloxi, MS, witnessing some of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina firsthand. She may be reached at atucker@thejewishcenter.org. Every so often a very special thing happens at the bi-weekly meeting of the