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Jacob Labendz is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program. He is a PhD Candidate in the History Department of Washington University in St. Louis. Jacob is writing his dissertation on Jewish-state relations in Communist-led Czechoslovakia, and spent four years working in and alongside the Jewish community in Prague. He can be reached at labendz@hotmail.com. We had won. After fruitless negotiation with leaders whom we felt to be
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This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Jewish Journal and www.jewishjournal.com Lorin Fife is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage Program, Los Angeles. He is a recovering attorney, former waiter and accomplished artist, serves on the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Board of Governors and its Committee on the Unity of the Jewish People. He has co-chaired the Israel and Overseas programming of L.A.’s Jewish Federation as well as its Tel
Noam Pianko is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He is a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage program and a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alumnus. Noam just published Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn (Indiana University Press), blogs at www.noampianko.com, and lives in Seattle with his wife Rachel Nussbaum (also a Wexner Graduate Fellowship alum) and daughters, Yona and Mia. He can
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Skip Vichness is an alumnus of the Wexner Heritage MetroWest group. Skip is the Chair of the Foundation for Jewish Camp and is the Managing Partner of GreyPine,LLC which is involved in the operation of day, resident and special needs camps in the Northeast. He can be reached at skipv@nyc.rr.com. Over the years, mostly with the help of the Wexner Heritage program, I have thought long and hard about what
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Michael Alon is founder of the Let All the Children Play Foundation and an alumnus of the NY Wexner Heritage Program. He is a businessman living in Long Island, NY. For more information on how you can get involved with LATCP, go to www.latcp.org. Michael can be reached at Malon7@aol.com. Summer 1992 I am in Israel, along with a group of other Wexner Heritage members at our Wexner Heritage Program
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Naomi Gefen is an alumna of the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program (Class 19). Naomi is the Director of External Affairs and Project Development for ALYN Hospital in Jerusalem. She can be reached at nogefen@gmail.com. We all take for granted, whether in Israel on in the US, our access to water, food, electricity, education and more. For Haitians, these have never been a given. Since January 12th's earthquake, they have none.
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Deena Aranoff is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program and an assistant professor of medieval Jewish studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Deena is also a community educator and teaches Bible, Rabbinics and Jewish mysticism in a variety of adult education programs. She can be reached at daranoff@gmail.com. Over the past few months I have begun to work on a book manuscript: an introduction to Judaism.
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Marion Lev-Cohen is an alumna of the Wexner Heritage Program. Marion received her rabbinic ordination from HUC/JIR this May. She will become the Director of Adult Education and Engagement at Central Synagogue in August. She can be reached at marion693@aol.com. Rabbi Michael Paley stood behind the student and crouched until their eyes were at the same level. Michael explained to our transfixed class, that God would not let Moses look
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Rabbi Joanna Samuels is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program. Joanna serves as the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community www.advancingwomen.org. She can be reached at joanna@joannasamuels.com Recently, the small and busy staff of three at Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community participated in an online course organized by the Sloan School of Management at MIT. One of the sessions was
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Yael Bendat Appell is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program. Yael currently runs the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Resource Program at the Sager Solomon Schechter Middle School in Northbrook, IL, and is passionate about making Jewish education accessible to all students. Yael can be reached at ybendat@gmail.com. In this very space, Jonathan Woocher recently wrote about the future of Jewish education and asked this essential question: “How do