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Oct 2010
Jodi Mintz Ginsberg is a member of the Montreal 09 Wexner Heritage Group. She is President of Home and School Solomon Schechter Academy. Jodi is a food distributor and can be reached at jm@unifood.com. In an effort to prevent “bullying,” I was recently in school speaking to a group of grade 2 children about acts of kindness. My seven year old daughter Samantha had also taken part in this class
Oct 2010
As part of my summer reading, I picked up two books: one old, one new. My father, a retired English professor, found the first at one of my favorite used book shops: Hillel: The Book Against the Sword, written in the 1950s by Ely Pilchik, the founding director of University of Maryland Hillel. In this biographical study, Hillel the scholar comes alive with his teachings in narrative form. The second
Oct 2010
Johanna Norry is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program, Atlanta 05. She is currently the co- president of her synagogue’s Sisterhood, and serves on the board of Limmud Atlanta + Southeast, and has served on the boards of the Federation of Greater Jewish Atlanta and The Weber Jewish Community High School. Johanna can be reached at johannanorry@mac.com. Just over a year ago, my friend Erin made a pretty radical
Oct 2010
Rabbi Jennie Roseenn is a Wexner Graduate Fellowship Alumna, Class IV. She is the Program Director for Jewish Life and Values at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Jennie can be reached at jennie.rosenn@nathancummings.org. It happened nearly twenty years ago, and I hope I will never forget it. I had just finished my first year of rabbinical school and was serving as the student rabbi of a congregation on Cape Cod for
Sep 2010
Raquel Ukeles is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program and a Golda Meir postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the academic director of www.intellectualencounters.org, on philosophy and science in the world of medieval Islam. Raquel can be reached at rukeles@gmail.com. As a veteran participant in inter-religious programs, I’ve learned a tremendous amount by watching the successes and mistakes of others. For example, the most
Sep 2010
Scott Hurley is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program, San Francisco 08 and JCC President on the San Francisco Peninsula. Scott can be reached at scott.hartley@fox-shjeflo.com. I chose Judaism because my family was going to be in the Jewish community and I wanted to be an official member instead of a long term guest. I was drawn to the Jewish values of family, education and the importance of leading
Sep 2010
Rachel Alexander is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program, Class XIII. Rachel is currently the Director of Development for the New York Campaign of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. She can be reached at ralexander@hillel.org. “Leadership is about making a positive difference for and with others. Leadership is about the integrity of one’s character, the caliber of one’s capabilities, and the effectiveness of one’s collaboration
Sep 2010
Josh is is the Campus Rabbi at Fiedler Hillel at Northwestern University and an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program. Josh can be reached at rabbijosh@northwestern.edu. Recently I co-chaired a conference sponsored by Hillel with funding from the Jim Joseph Foundation called Toward a Third Space: A New Dimension in Jewish Education for Emerging Adults. While Hillel and JJF were the official conveners of the gathering, many of us
Sep 2010
Emeri S. Handler is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program, San Francisco 08. She currently serves on the boards of the Oshman Family JCC and Moving Traditions, an organization inspiring teens to look more deeply at Judaism using gender as the framework. She can be reached at emeri@thehandlerfamily.com. My grandmother Goldie, zichrono l’vracha, was 98 when she passed away last fall, erev Rosh Hashanah. She was widowed soon after
Sep 2010
Margaret Jelinek Lewis is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program from Houston and a professor of psychology and human sexuality at Lonestar College – Tomball in Tomball, Texas. She can be reached at msjlewis@me.com Last night at Open House in my child’s Jewish day school, parents listened intently as the teachers talked about math and social studies, but when they mentioned that this was the year the kids would